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...example, the problem is more difficult. The best expedient would seem to be allowing all prospective cakemen to compete for the franchise each year, forcing the incumbent to show that he was providing quality and service at a fair price. If not, bureaucratic stagnation could easily set in, and overshadow the fine effects that the creation of Harvard Student Agencies, Inc., should have on the student employment field here...
...nation's foreign problems, he said, color and overshadow the budget problem and other domestic factors; the United Nations, with all its shortcomings, can be ignored only "at our future peril...
Such military considerations must not be permitted to paralyze the emergent economic functions of NATO. These functions will rapidly overshadow other objectives, and antipathies over military strategy cannot be allowed to interrupt such progress. It is to this goal that America must yield, and must make concessions to Europe, if only to prevent political tensions from destroying the delicate, nascent, economic agreement...
Scott's excellence does not overshadow the other players, though--they are almost all too good for that. The cast is large, and each one cannot be singled out for his deserved praise. Several of the actors do, however, stand out; particularly John Fenn as an impassioned Mowbray, Glen Bowersock in the role of Aumerle, Johanna Linch, who played a very majestic Queen and Andre Gregory as the aging and prophet-like Gaunt. And in the tiny part of a gardener, Charles Sifton gave a really remarkable performance...
...notably Senator Jackson of Washington, fear that the United States may be losing in that critical race. Certainly no one would quarrel with the Administration's request for more money for missiles, or with Secretary of Defense Wilson's forthcoming appointment of a "missile czar." But missiles should not overshadow the need for conventional aircraft; only certain evidence that Communist military strength is waning should have that effect. No one so far has produced such evidence--on the contrary, the Soviet display of air power over Moscow last spring indicates that their strength is greater than ever...