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...Know the Danger." Early last week George of Georgia stated his position. "I think the great nations who are vitally interested in world peace and the stability of governments ought to be brought together as soon as it is practical." Then he added: "I know the danger of [high-level conferences], and I know how frequently they are futile and useless, but at the same time, I think we have reached a point where we could try." The Senator's remarks set off a whirl in Washington. California's Republican Senator William Knowland, always suspicious of any overtures...
...publishing the Yalta records, the State Department has probably made any chance of a high-level conference with the Russians impossible in the near future. Perhaps that was the Department's secret intention, but it may unwittingly have destroyed hopes for an East-West conference not only in 1955, but for a long time to come. As Prime Minister Churchill pointed out in his remarkably restrained comments on the release of the documents, diplomacy is simply impossible if diplomats must fear that a record of every exchange of views will be promptly delivered into the eager hands of Congressmen...
...know carried his case, along with the possible fate of the government security system, to the United States Supreme Country. Two weeks ago, his lawyers field briefs demanding his re-instatement on a claim the government had fired him without regard for due process of law. Despite reports of high-level dissension over the case, the Justice Department struck back strongly at the Peters arguments, defending the government's unrestricted right to dismiss employees without a formal judicial process and without interference by the Federal judiciary. A Supreme Court judgement against the government, one Justice Department official said forebodingly, "would...
...tankers) and heavy (B-52) planes for the Air Force. It was also good news for United Aircraft Corp., which will supply some $180 million worth of J57 Pratt & Whitney engines for the tankers, and for some 8,000 Boeing suppliers. For Boeing, it assures high-level production into 1958-and another big step toward being the first U.S. aircraft company with a commercial jet airliner. Airline operators guessed that the Air Force would let Boeing take orders for commercial transports, since the Air Force itself is interested in building such a civilian fleet...
...least as associate professors. In hastening to implement the program in 1952, however, the administration filled the posts with non-tenure men. While these tutors have filled their posts excellently, their administrations have pointed out more problems in the proposed system than earlier anticipated and have caused many high-level officials in the University to cast around for an alternative to Dean bender's suggestion. Such efforts are unfortunate, since the posts can be made attractive to men of permanent rank, who should fill them...