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...national and party objectives, studied them carefully, defended them with lucid (if dishonest) arguments, and attained them. Some of his aims seemed quite limited when compared to the ballooning notions of world reorganization cherished in Washington; Stalin fought for one river boundary of Poland against another with the myopic pertinacity of a 17th century diplomat arguing over a second-string fortress. But of these small, ignoble chunks of reality was the actual postwar world built. _ Nor did Roosevelt at Yalta act and talk like a man who wholly believed in the future concert of the Big Three. He and Churchill...
...social views of the American Medical Association are myopic, for if the nation had enough doctors, compulsory health insurance would not force the government to control physicians' rates. Without inflationary pressure disrupting the system, the fees under compulsory health insurance could be provided by paycheck deductions, employer contributions, and equalizing government subsides modeled on the Social Security plan. Existing voluntary health insurance companies could administer the funds collected, and pay physicians' fees with little of the red tape required under the British system. A bill incorporating similar provisions was introduced in Congress last year by Republican Senators Ives and Flanders...
...Myopic Triumph. In Miami, arrested for firing a shotgun at six rowdy teen-agers who were throwing rocks at his house and slightly wounding two of them, William Winslow Gordon, 79, explained with satisfaction: "I've shot at them lots of times before, but I'm nearsighted, and this is the first time I ever was lucky enough...
...myopic moneyed classes of Guate-j mala, whose skins and properties were saved by Carlos Castillo Armas' anti-Communist revolution last June, are the ones who gave the least money towards the revolution-and who have since refused to help with the revolution's debts. Last week, thoroughly exasperated. President Castillo Armas ruled that if gratitude were not motive enough to produce aid from the rich, the law would have to serve instead. He thereupon decreed a drastic capital levy...
There is an unconfirmed rumor, perpetuated by countless caricatures, that more Harvard men wear glasses than do any other species of human beings. Whether or not the myopic stereotype is accurate, it is obvious that many students do wear glasses. It seems surprising, then, that the Hygiene Department has no facilities for eye care. When students catch colds, they drop in for a shot of penicillin at the Hygiene Building. When they get toothaches, they visit the clinic's complete dental facilities. But when they suffer eyestrain, they face the unhappy alternative of ruining their eyes or riding...