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...candid admission that the Eisenhower Administration is tailoring the nation's defense to budgetary cloth Engine Charlie added a reminder: with military technology speeding ahead (see below), a shrinkage in manpower does not necessarily mean a weakening of military wallop. "Numbers alone don't tell you the story," he said, "either for them...
...Hollister's successor at the ICA, James Smith, 47, onetime Pan American World Airways vice president, is well aware of the problems ahead-and the objectives. Said he: "We must undertake to help other countries become of age and attain economic growth. And by help I do not mean giveaways. I mean that same kind of sensible, useful help that you would give to a new enterprise in your own community...
...brickyards, junkyards and poor taverns by the summer-shrunken Tiber. On Moravia's showing, at least, it is easy to see how their ancestors managed to run the world with very little show of conscience. Yet, though Moravia's characters lack conscience-though they are bent on mean personal advantage and are forever trying to trip their fellows into the gutter-they are all also victims themselves. In Taboo, a story about a shop clerk who steals his friend's girl with fancy talk of his own mysterious powers. Author Moravia suggests his moral: the poor must...
...called moderate segregationists must now either recognize that moderation does not mean "never" or they must join the radical segregationists. The Little Rock situation may serve to jolt some delaying moderates into accepting
...event, says the State Department, the mere granting of routes does not mean an immediate, full-scale competitive attack on U.S. carriers. Of the 62 agreements between the U.S. and foreign nations, 32 have still not been put into action, and many will probably never take effect because of the cost of setting up an airline. But this is one argument that really riles U.S. airlines. While it is true that the airline business is getting more expensive, the fact that international airlines are also instruments of national prestige means that every nation, big or little, wants one, and that...