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There was, of course, always a chance-but not much of a chance-that Russia's Balkan stooge-states might go crazy with the expansionist itch and provoke a war which Russia quite certainly did not want at this time. Said a State Department official: "Russia is just as worried." Washington's intelligence reported that the Communists had assembled an international brigade near the Greek border. The U.S. hoped that when Russia saw that its bluff had been called, the brigade would melt away. The tension would last until U.S. arms for the Greek Army began to arrive...
News that terminal leave bonds can be cashed by September 1 may raise an itch on the palm of the veteran, but something more like a furrow on the brow of the professorial economist. Two members of the Economics Department here saw the government move yesterday as another round in the inflation spiral...
...itch to tell all had spread among retired White House hands. In the Saturday Evening Post, gurgling, roly-poly George E. Allen turned up last week with a one-shot article on "My Two Years with Truman." By Allen's account the two years had been fun for Allen but not so much fun for his good friend Harry Truman-a man of "exaggerated modesty" who had inherited all the problems of the Roosevelt Administration...
...Emil Gruening, a famous physician, wanted his only son to be a doctor. At Connecticut's Hotchkiss School, and later at Harvard, Ernest Gruening had agreed wholeheartedly. But during three years at Harvard Medical School he developed an overwhelming curiosity about social and political developments and an itch to become a newspaperman...
...wealthy Denver Republican, he played football at Phillips Academy at Andover, learned law at Yale, served an exploratory year as a legal secretary with SEC. During the war he flew a Washington desk as a commander in the Naval Air Transport Service, came back to Denver with an itch to give the city a liberal, non-partisan mayoralty administration...