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...most practical solution is to cut the three week spring reading period by three days and postpone winter registration from Wednesday to Friday. This cut would hardly damage the already lengthy reading period and would not seriously impair non-reading period courses because the spring term, unlike the fall, is generally free from weekend celebrations...
Faith in ballistic missiles and reverence for balanced budgets have been the saws with which the Eisenhower Administration has cut defense expenditures almost eight billions of dollars since 1953. Although some of the reductions were no doubt worthwhile savings, others threaten to impair U.S. military effectiveness...
Health & Welfare. President Eisenhower reiterated one of his basic principles: "This Administration follows two simple rules: first, the Federal Government should perform an essential task only when it cannot otherwise be adequately performed; and second, in performing that task, our Government must not impair the self-respect, the freedom and incentive of the individual . . . Government can fully meet its obligation without creating a dependent population or a domineering bureaucracy." Turning to those "essential tasks," he again proposed that the Federal Government move to 1) provide additional public-housing units in each of the next two years, 2) strengthen health services...
...time after that. Greece, for all the intensity of its desire for control of Cyprus (whose people are of Greek stock), and Britain, for all its resolve to keep full control of the island that is now its Middle Eastern command post, held back from a quarrel that would impair NATO teamwork between Greeks, Britons and Turks...
...Senate Leader Knowland was speaking for himself and not for the Eisenhower Administration. Rejecting blockade at this time, Dulles promised that "Our nation will react, and react vigorously, but without allowing ourselves to be provoked into action which would be a violation of our international obligations and which would impair the alliance of the free nations...