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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...money poured down a "bottomless pit," hammered at "creeping socialism," at "bungling" at Yalta and Potsdam, at "appeasement, vacillation and weakness" which, he charged, led up to the Korean war. Scott Lucas went his weary, cautious way. He argued that victory in Korea had prevented World War III. He repudiated several important Fair Deal items such as socialized medicine and the Brannan Plan. The loyal and indefatigable Douglas chugged right & left in his station wagon, lifting his voice for Scott Lucas and the whole Fair Deal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Voices Over Illinois | 10/9/1950 | See Source »

...Deferment quotas for Military Science II, III and IV and Air Science II, III and IV are allotted to the Military and Air Force Departments, respectively, by higher headquarters. Selection of ROTC students who will be permitted to sign the Deferment Agreement will be made from among all students enrolled in each of these courses by a board composed of officers of the respective Services and members of the Faculty of Harvard College...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Text of New ROTC Rulings on Enrollment Policy | 9/25/1950 | See Source »

...III shake her hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Nickel in the Piccolo | 9/11/1950 | See Source »

...III Met by Moonlight, by W. Stanley Moss. How a handful of British agents kidnaped a German general under the eyes of his garrison in Crete; a high-spirited account of one of the boldest stunts of the war, by one of the Britons who brought it off (TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Recent & Readable, Sep. 11, 1950 | 9/11/1950 | See Source »

...German general's hat should be on a British officer's head is pretty much the gist of III Met by Moonlight. For as the staff car, driven by Author Moss, moved along the road in northern Crete, sentries at no less than 22 German traffic-control posts smartly saluted the behatted "general"' and waved the car on. They had no inkling that prostrate on the floor in the back seat lay the real general, with guns pointed at his head. Twenty days later, on May 16, 1944, kidnaped Major General Karl Kreipe was handed over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: How to Kidnap a General | 9/4/1950 | See Source »

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