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...anyone is interested in going after colonialism," said Dulles, he should look to the enslaved nations behind the Iron Curtain. Added Dwight Eisenhower at his midweek press conference: the "best role" for the U.S. is to "try to be understanding to both sides in any quarrel . . . That means often you work behind the scenes because you don't get up and begin to shout about such things, or there will be no effectiveness...
...final testing of power came at a special meeting of the powerful, 130-odd-man party Central Committee, which lasted from June 22 to June 29. According to Polish Communists (who often have a good pipeline to the Kremlin), Molotov may even have sought the meeting, confident that his side had the top hand. Khrushchev proposed that the first item of the agenda should be the current situation of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union. Molotov countered with the proposal, meant to put Khrushchev on the defensive, that the international position be considered, "in the light of attempted imperialist...
Trujillo is essentially a brutally efficient businessman. Name of the business: the Dominican Republic. His basic maneuver is to squeeze other investors, including those from the U.S., out of profitable businesses. He sends his representatives to make what is often a scrupulously fair offer; the victims accept rather than face the tax and regulatory troubles that might follow refusal. Trujillo's cement, beer and electric-power monopolies were all acquired in this fashion, and he has nearly completed control of the island's biggest business-sugar. Most recent big U.S. firm to get out: the West Indies Sugar...
...poet"), Eby declared his independence of the master by taking a course in Christian ethics rather than Dewey's course in pragmatic philosophy. In 1909 he landed at Texas, not only pioneered in the junior college movement but also in the fields of religious and esthetic education. Often caustic, he roundly denounced psychologists ("They have built a maze, mistaken it for the universe and have succeeded only in getting lost in it"), current teaching methods ("There has never been a generation so severed from tradition. They don't even know the lullabies"), once ended a lecture with...
...East New Guinea's Schrader Mountains. Though for obvious reasons his courses have not been jammed with students ("It is not a job that promises much to students. It is not as engineering, no?"), he has fascinated many a future anthropologist with the pygmy's mysterious and often endearing ways. "They embraced me," he recalls of one of his visits to the Schrader pygmies, "and invited me immediately to see their people. Imagine if one of them was dropped into the middle of Washington society...