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...might otherwise be willing to go along with a test ban are haunted by the possibility that the U.S.S.R. would find ways to evade the ban and develop nuclear weapons superior to the U.S.'s. To guard against this possibility, the U.S. has insisted from the outset that any nuclear test-ban agreement must include an adequate system of detection and control...
...This won't be a knock-knock-knock column," promised Robinson at the very outset-whereupon he started spraying his knocks to all fields. Sometimes he dismays even the Post, as when he declared that he might be compelled to support Republican Richard Nixon for President if the Democrats failed to nominate a staunch civil rights candidate...
Sticking to Business. In African countries with large Moslem populations, the Israelis had to contend at the outset with pro-Arab sympathies. Remembering that they were guests, they stuck to business and to efforts that visibly helped the people, while Nasser in his Radio Cairo broadcasts offered his Moslem brothers little but hate. As one Israeli living in the Ivory Coast puts it, they found that "people will forget a lot of politics very quickly if you can outshine the next fellow at filling a need that helps people in the pocketbook...
Because of the if, the President coupled his predictions with calls for precautions in his annual economic report to Congress. This is the third and final major message required of the chief executive at the outset of a new session...
Running against Morgan State's Nick Ellis, Bates' Rudy Smith, and Michigan's Tony Seth, all of whom tower over him, Yale's Jim Stack led from the outset to win in the fine time of 1:10.9. There is no Crimson runner within five seconds of him in this event. Both Stack and Carroll came back after brief rests to pace the number one Eli two-mile squad. Carroll contributed a 1:55 880 as anchor man to fight off challenges by Villanova and Georgetown...