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Would prolonged Senate consideration of Ike's proposals to spend up to $200 million for economic aid to the Middle East and stave off Communist aggression in the Middle East with U.S. troops impair this new doctrine's effectiveness? "I certainly have never quarreled with the right of the Congress of the U.S. to examine every proposal seriously, earnestly, and dig to the bottom of it, and contemplate its possible effects," said the President. But "time is important in this area because we know of certain developments going on that are not certainly in our best interests...
...Gurion, who had accepted a cease-fire but stalled on withdrawing his troops from conquered Egyptian soil. Sternly the President reminded Ben-Gurion of "the various elements of our policy of support to Israel in so many ways," and he hoped indeed that Israel would not choose to "impair" these fruitful relations. (Privately, he told Israel it could expect no U.S. help if Israeli delay resulted in Russian attack.) Writhin 24 hours Ben-Gurion, fearful of the Russian air buildup in Syria and concerned about the U.S., capitulated...
...some ways the heatproof tubes work better than ordinary tubes. When operating red-hot, they need no electrically heated filament; their cathodes are hot enough to give off plenty of electrons. The hot titanium inside them acts as a "getter," sweeping up any stray gases that might impair the vacuum...
...Democratic Representative Howard Smith, author of the Smith Act, said flatly that Congress had no intention of writing off the state sedition laws. The Smith Act comes under Title 18 of the Criminal Code, which also provides that "nothing in this title shall be held to take away or impair the jurisdiction of the courts of the several states under the laws thereof...
Each instance of disease-especially in childhood-does a certain amount of damage to the body's overall metabolic efficiency, Dr. Jones theorizes, and succeeding bouts with disease further impair the vigor and organization of body function. The dramatic decline of such diseases as smallpox, tuberculosis and syphilis means less impairment of the body's total functional capacity. From elaborate disease statistics and death rates, Dr. Jones concludes, therefore, that the 45-year-olds of 1956 should be equated with the 40-year-olds...