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...efficient security police. He let others do his talking. And while he kept cool-and safe-on an inaccessible island in the Adriatic, the Yugoslav comrades talked big and fast. They flatly rejected the Cominform charges as "slanders and fabrications," and countercharged conspiracy "to impair the prestige of the [Yugoslav] Communist Party." Fifteen thousand of them sent off a telegram to Comrade Stalin asking him to remove the "false accusations." The telegram was tied with baby-blue ribbons: "Long live our teacher of love toward the Soviet Union, Comrade Tito, and long live our big friend, Stalin...
...additions, Skouras asserted blandly, will not impair the film's "dramatic power and beauty...
...Secrecy, applied in a stupid and hysterical and demagogic way, can actually impair and weaken our security. . . . We need ideas if we are to keep our lead and increase it. . . . New ideas require not only inspiration and perspiration but information. . . . It would be nothing short of a major national catastrophe if through lack of an informed public opinion America's atomic enterprise should drift into the doldrums, should fall prey to ignorance or panic or indifference or petty politics...
...time it was blonde Bettye Mills's Stork Club, located on a lurid strip of honky-tonks known as The Block. Bettye not only serves drinks, she has strippers for entertainment. And for free she tosses the mob her garter every night. Such goings-on, Sherm felt, would "impair and cause severe damage" to his reputation...
...conceivably could make further expense cuts of the sort that have created the current dearth of tutorial. The administration views such cuts uneasily because they would impair the quality of education at Harvard. Nor would they stand up logically in the face of the fact that the return to normal enrollment will be an advantage only insofar as it can unburden the physical plant and return educational standards to the prewar level...