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Foreign Policy. "We have done more than just talk about peace; we have worked for it. We have seen Communist aggression come to a complete halt. We have seen a halt in the world's drift toward nuclear war . . . We have seen dangers in their most awful forms lessen rather than grow . . . challenges met instead of evaded. We have seen, in great part as a result of our own conduct, the leaders of world Communism forced to renounce some of their old ways...
...will give him high marks for doing as much as he has to lessen his people's poverty, cure their diseases, school them and make a nation of them. It will recognize, too, that Nehru, like China's Sun Yat-sen and Turkey's Kemal Ataturk, has had a difficult and frustrating role to .play in bringing his people into democratic nationhood under tutelage. In these pursuits, Jawaharlal Nehru has his high place, even though he will not be an ally, and is not particularly a friend...
...land at greater weight is to jeopardize aircraft and passengers. The procedure for reducing weight in emergency cases (although many a pilot would prefer to risk landing overloaded) is to dump surplus gasoline. To do this, the pilot must turn off all unnecessary radio and electrical equipment to lessen the hazards of electrical sparks, maintain air speed between 160 and 218 m.p.h. By turning on his fuel-dump levers, the emergency mechanism would lower four release chutes from the wings. When the release chutes stretched down 3½ ft., the gasoline would start its flow. His decision made, Pilot Plata...
...managers of McCormack's campaign do no seriously expect him to get the Democratic nomination. Their aims are to lessen Stevenson's support and possible to secure the second spot on the ticket for McCormack...
...historians, professors, and museum people--working in the field of Fine Arts in the United States. Several other graduate schools--New York University, for example--are currently matching Harvard in quality, but fall far below in quanity. Coolidge hopes that others will come into the field to lessen the University's burden. "There is nothing," he says, "that we would welcome more than a decrease in this responsibility...