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America First. For the U.S. and Russia, the bargaining period could prove a perilous one-or a real opportunity to cool off the Arabs and lay the foundation for a durable peace. Both Washington and Moscow are in disrepute among the Arabs. As Israeli columns closed on Suez, Radio Cairo repeatedly shrilled that the Arabs were fighting "America first, America second and America third"-and many a fellah believed it. Washington is thus looking for some way of regaining a measure of influence in the petroliferous Arab world without sacrificing Israel's interests...
...spring morning in 1948, the U.S. freighter John H. Quick eased into the harbor of Bordeaux, her holds heavy with 9,000 tons of wheat. The scars of war still showed in the prostrate Europe that lay beyond the Quick's bows...
...almost the same time, Israeli jets hit Arab bases in Jordan, Syria and Iraq. They swept in from the sea to hit Egyptian bases deeper inside Egypt; and after landing only long enough to refuel, they hammered away until 25 of the most vital fields in the Arab world lay smoking. So expert were the Israeli pilots that they seldom seemed to waste a bomb, a rocket or a bullet. Their reconnaissance photos showed plane after plane smashed and burning?with hardly a crater in the runways or the level sands surrounding the targets...
...September 15, 1963--four days before the freshmen were officially to become freshmen--that the class of 1967 undertook its first collective venture. Trunks still lay open in the bare rugless living rooms, and strange smells of mothballs, home-baked cookies and detergent mixed ungracefully with the fragrance of Indian Summer in the Yard. Outside Stoughton, under the quickly darkening sky, twenty-five of the new arrivals plotted with furtive relish their first attack on the 'Cliffie: a Panty Raid...
...fled to West Berlin in 1950, within two years was directing a geriatrics clinic. Though he had been reading up on medicine, he was careful never to perform an operation; as hospital director, he was able to confine his medical practice to diagnosis. But his true talent lay in administering the clinic and giving instinctively deft psychological help. In his carefully chosen specialty, the attitude of aged patients is often far more important than actual medical treatment. The kindhearted amputee, who had himself obviously suffered so much, was just the man to understand and salve a patient's problems...