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More foreign seminars for the "exchange of ideas" head the 1951 projects of the Student Council's International Activities Committee. The program received its first impetus following the East-West split. At present, the committee sponsors a seminar in Germany, an International Student Information Service, and two student projects in the Middle East and Southeast Asia...
...advance of contemporary Communism against a civilization which has lost faith in its God and is slowly disintegrating into the resultant void. He is not comparing the moral worth of Christianity with that of Communism; rather he demonstrates regretfully that strong faith of any kind can give impetus to social movements...
...World War II, when trained workers were hard to find and hard to keep, the wise boss had indulged such little liberties. Later, the men came back from the wardrooms and mess halls of the armed forces, where the percolators chuckle day & night, and gave the custom new impetus...
...rumor that would not be downed in Washington was that Secretary of State Dean Acheson would be out by the first of the year. The election gave it new impetus. "I would assume with these election results," said Harold Stassen, "that Secretary Acheson would resign." G.O.P. National Chairman Guy Gabrielson felt the same way. Republican Senators, including Joe McCarthy and Bourke Hickenlooper, began warming up for new investigations of the State Department...
...which usually sternly preaches that countries must live within their means, kept telling the Italian government that it was not living up to its means. ECA officials advised the government to relax credit to give industry a badly needed impetus, expend more ECA counterpart funds on public works to reduce unemployment. The government for the most part ignored these suggestions. Last week, New York Times Correspondent Arnaldo Cortesi summed up ECA's complaints in a dispatch to his newspaper. When the Italian press picked up the story, Italy's able ECA Chief Leon Dayton, former president...