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...trying to get." As for a Southeast Asia defensive alliance, Eden deprecated the U.S.'s urgency by remarking that the idea was "really not a new one ... Its relevance to current events must not be exaggerated. It could be a future safeguard, but it is not a present panacea." "There Is a Danger." All through his speech, the noisiest approval came from the Socialists. Herbert Morrison, Foreign Secretary in the last Labor government, said that Eden "has taken much the line that we should have taken had we been in office." Tory and Socialist alike, speaker after speaker rose...
...Until the clinical relationship between the amount of nicotine and tars and their effect on the individual smoker is conclusively established, no filter can offer a panacea except one that possesses 100% efficiency. The hard facts of the matter are that a completely efficient filter would permit the smoker to inhale nothing...
...nothing else, the desertion of the villages in Indo-China should remove any delusions in the State Department that military aid is a panacea in the fight against Communism. To return to the early days of the Truman Doctrine or the Marshall Plan when the U.S. seized the tactical offense in the cold war, however, would not be feasible. Such a shift would neglect the primacy of a military balance of power, necessary as the Soviet menace has increased. But the requirements for rifles and tanks should not obscure the advantages of economic and technical assistance...
...they know there is no panacea for the admissions problem. It is a major feat for a school virtually unknown outside the New England area only ten years ago to become a representative cross section of the country. Yet Radcliffe has come a long way toward accomplishing this. Vigorous administrators are going out and selling a type of education. And they think the market is good...
...that Ward, even if he is elected to the School Committee, will have a difficult time combining with politicians of his ilk to block constructive measures like the Schools Report. The New Boston Committee is the reason for this recent improvement in Boston politics. The commitee is no panacea; it is no machine. And the candidates it endorses are not always qualified in every respect for office. They are generally, however, the pick of the field...