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NATO's complex cumbersomeness is chiefly on the political and economic side. On the military side, General Dwight Eisenhower's SHAPE command has settled into a tight, efficient routine. At Lisbon, NATO's chiefs (numbering about 30 ministers) hoped to fashion a close-knit governing board of twelve full-time members with enough power and privacy to make big political and economic decisions, the way Eisenhower's SHAPE can make military ones...
...Smoker would serve a definite purpose if it were held in October or early November. In March the freshman class is about as closely knit as it ever becomes, and there is no need for a "get acquainted" party. It's in the early fall that freshmen need such an affair...
...zany doings. Most of them are annual events dealing with the freshman class, which in Princeton is about as popular with the rest of the University as an untrained puppy at a bridge party. The "frosh" are alternately persecuted and pampered until the class has become a close-knit, self-reliant, if a little obnoxious, unit...
...Domestic policy: Conservative Republicans and Southern Democrats blocked most Administration proposals. The Republican 80th Congress, castigated by Truman, had a direction in domestic policy; the 82nd had no direction. The Fair Dealers are a minority; the majority, made up of loose-knit groups without common aim or discipline, did not and could not accept responsibility for developing a program. The frustration and division of Congress was such that it made no progress on such measures as the St. Lawrence seaway, statehood for Alaska and Hawaii, reapportionment and redistricting of congressional districts...
Eighteen independents are running. They have never been able to combine into a well-knit group but, if they should, might easily carry the election. On an individual basis, each has consistently received a larger vote than any one CCA candidate. Spencer believes that they will spread the vote by campaigning independently of one another and so defeat themselves. The only time that the independents tried to combine against the CCA, they failed. This was in 1949. The independents lead by former mayor John W. Lyons (now publisher of the weekly Cambridge Courier), held a secret meeting at the Hotel...