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Hoffmann pointed to three errors in pronouncements of disarmament groups: an overestimation of the likelihood of war, a mistaken belief in the defensive character and limited objectives of Soviet policy, and an inordinate press on survival as a goal of American region policy...
When U.S. Ambassador Frederick E. Nolting Jr. called on him in Saigon, he discovered that Diem was laboring under what Washington calls "several mistaken ideas" as a result of his talks with Taylor, which basically added up to the notion that nothing should or could be done in the way of domestic reforms before the military situation has been improved. Besides, added Diem, he could not broaden his regime and delegate authority because he could not trust his ministers...
Lush & Cool. Opened in 1912 after complex litigation, Rice is so rich (net worth: $101 million) that it charges no tuition, and so picks only top students. Long mistaken for a pure engineering school, Rice in fact is a fount of the humanities. Though Rice students endure Math 100, a required trial in orderly thinking, the majority wind up in liberal arts...
...Sadly Mistaken. On the other hand, if Khrushchev expected that he could bully and stampede the free world into a state of defenseless fear, he was sadly mistaken. "We must not be cowed," said Secretary General Shigesaburo Maeo of Japan's ruling Liberal-Democratic Party, "but must reaffirm our determination to continue resistance against such inhuman conduct." Said Philippines President Carlos P. Garcia: "If Russia does not stop her defiant disregard of the feelings of entire humanity, she will inevitably reap what she has sown." Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan spoke for the entire free world when...
...dreamer who knew the longings of ordinary men-to stuff their wives and put them on the mantelpiece, to bet the old plantation on an uncaught ace, while the paddle wheel goes pocketa-pocketa. He was a bad artist who drew wonderful, lumpy dogs, and was often mistaken for one of them by strangers who had never seen him throw a highball glass...