Word: likelies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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proim. A prime cut of meat in Brooklyn that too often tastes like hawss-meat. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Cheaters...
...intelligent man like India's Nehru fail to realize that Gandhi's doctrine of passive resistance could work wonders against an England with a conscience and yet_ fail disastrously against a Communist China which has no conscience...
...going to buy the best or even adequate defense. Though drafted over months of round-the-clock work by able planners, the proposed defense budget leaves the U.S. with cause for rising worry over how much security it gets for its tax dollar. Reason: the 1961 budget, like many of its predecessors, represents slow compromise with the fast, uncompromising changes of modern-weapons technology. Result: it spreads too thin over too many half-finished, half-good or plainly outdated programs, perpetuates costly ideas out of past wars, fails to concentrate spending upon the strict necessities of today and the future...
...Gaulle thinks NATO's structure could be more efficient. For example, he thinks that there is too much integration in the army command, necessitating a discreet balance between generals and staff officers of the various countries. He won't change the structure by himself, but he would like to start negotiations to change...
...season that was both the Crimson's most satisfying in years and a curiously acute disappointment. To be the only team in the League to beat champion Penn, to upset both Princeton and Yale for the Big Three title, and then also to lose ingloriously to mediocre teams like Cornell and Brown--the final impression is a mixture of pleasure at a good season and disappointment at a couple of near-misses...