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What did Sheriff Clancy know about crime in Jefferson Parish? Well, he had been sheriff for only 22 years, so naturally he didn't know all about it. "Insofar as gambling is concerned," he obliged, "that has been going on there for hundreds of years. I presume that a man that would run for office down there . . . unless he was for it,he could not have been elected...
...Insofar as she is a Radcliffe girl, she is responsible to this office," Miss Projansky explained. "We'll probably wait a week or so and then assign a new reporter to the Herald...
...reading "Admission fees are permissible provided their purpose is to support the legitimate activities of the organization, concerned," leaves too much dependent on the vague word "legitimate" and makes no reference to fees charged on other than University property. It should be changed to "Admission fees are permissible except insofar as they endanger the tax-exempt status of the University...
Where Bradley had erred, insofar as coping with the present situation was concerned, was in his concentration on Western Europe. It was true that he saw the Communist menace in Asia. He wanted to draw some kind of a line there. He thought the U.S. should at least send a military.mission to the Chinese Nationalist government on Formosa. On that point he was out-talked by Secretary of State Dean Acheson...
...reassessment, if the J.C.S. followed Sherman, and for that matter, Airman Vandenberg, would mean the end of the concept of the "balanced force"-at least insofar as it operated on the "a-pistol-for-Mole, a-pistol-for-Badger, a-pistol-for-Rat" three-way even split of the defense dollar. It would probably mean a bigger Air Force and a bigger Navy, a smaller share for the Army...