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...Democrat" has meant to me race baiting, fiscal irresponsibility and obsequious relationships with custodians of organized-labor votes. Senator Dodd of Connecticut has shown me that "Democrat" can also mean statesmanship...
...insist on "immediate free elections," even while requiring some sort of yet-to-be-defined "free expression" by all the Germans as to their political future. The U.S. may even retreat from its position that a settlement on Berlin requires concurrent settlement of reunification-but this does not mean an abandonment of the reunification principle...
Like any ranking Army officer, General Lyman Louis Lemnitzer, 59, has a soldier's talents for open warfare, but like few he has a diplomat's deft touch for the quiet, unsung victory. Last week President Eisenhower, no mean soldier-diplomat himself, picked General Lemnitzer as the next Army Chief of Staff, to succeed retiring General Maxwell Taylor, 57, next July 1. Lemnitzer was the only new man on the President's list of appointees to the Joint Chiefs of Staff: Air Force's General Nathan Farragut Twining, 61, was reappointed chairman; Chief of Naval...
Shepard was asked about his hitting this year, and at first he just shook his head. "Well, maybe Martin, maybe Harrington, maybe Boulris," he said after a moment. "But we've had some real good hitters the past few years--I mean fellows like Cleary and Hathaway and Saia--and my good gracious how we're going to miss them...
However, the indictment is not a blanket one: "This does not mean that the universities are complete failures; it merely means that they are far more unsuccessful, according to their own standards, than they are generally willing to admit." In large part, Williams attributes the failure of self-analysis to the limitations of the professorial personality...