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Best evidence that it is high time for the evolution of a new, broader NATO came last week when even NATO's Gen eral Alfred Maximilian Gruenther was un able to muster up much congressional or public enthusiasm for the most sensible of pleas for foreign aid, made on the basis of the old NATO program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Developing the New NATO | 6/11/1956 | See Source »

...Freshman Union Committee has passed the problem of what to do about the Smoker on to next year's Committee. At its final meeting of the year last night, the Yard group failed to muster the votes necessary to abolish the annual Memorial Hall affair...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '59 Postpones Smoker Vote Until Autumn | 5/22/1956 | See Source »

...shearing of Lamb was complete. Only 70 of the 1,933 individual shareholders had given him their votes. With what he and his family owned he could muster only 98,950 votes, barely enough to win four of the 15 seats on the board. The old management, with 71.5% of the 414,916 shares eligible to vote, remained in solid control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Shorn Lamb | 5/7/1956 | See Source »

...could only manage to muster up an average of three games per match to throw at the varsity Wednesday as the Engineers bowed by a 15-0 score. Only Steve Gottlieb and Maynard Canfield had to resort to more than ten games to win a set, and the fifth doubles combine of Captain Brooks Harris and Gottlieb took their match without the loss of a game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Tennis Team Conquers M.I.T., Brown by Shutout Scores | 4/20/1956 | See Source »

...President Howard B. Keck was not responsible for the specifics, but he showed "remarkable laxity" in delegating the expenditure of his "personal funds." As for mild Senator Case, who has never quite squared himself with the Senate leadership for calling attention to the whole mess, the committee could muster up only the lamest kind of praise: "The committee does not intend to cast any reflection upon Senator Case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: Matter of Whits | 4/16/1956 | See Source »

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