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...American policy," said Secretary of State John Foster Dulles last week, "is conducted on the assumption, as a working hypothesis, that free governments in the long run are going to prevail, and despotic governments in the long run are going to go under." Dulles was answering a question at his weekly news conference, and even as he was talking, Russia's Nikita Khrushchev was maneuvering and striking against the Stalinists in one of the great upheavals of Kremlin history (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...Passed (78-0) a $3.6 billion Agricultural Department appropriation, which restored the $500 million soil-bank program slashed out by the House at the height of its economy mood. The bill goes to a Senate-House conference where the Senate version is expected to prevail...
...powerful conservative Masjumi (Moslem) Party it was intolerable. "If the Chief of State considers that the Constitution can be lightly laid aside if necessary," said Masjumi Leader Mohammed Natsir, "then the people will inevitably look upon it lightly too. The result of this is that jungle law will prevail...
...Snopeses-the twins, Bilbo and Vardaman Snopes, Wallstreet Panic Snopes, Admiral Dewey Snopes, Byron and Virgil Snopes and Montgomery Ward Snopes. (The reader is grateful for an occasional mnemonic rhyme, e.g., one Snopes is called Eck, "the one with the broken neck.") Malignant, hated, despised, physically maladroit, the Snopeses prevail over better men by their rapacity and lack of pride or shame. They are like monkeys on the backs of men, and they move to "the blind glare of the blind money...
...sensation of running smack into wet sheets hanging on a backyard line ("Do that with an electric drier!"), and well remembers that one important use for a phonograph was to see how far the turntable could throw a horse chestnut. Smith knows he does not have a chance to prevail in the golden age of the child psychologist. He is simply a brave, worried man who knows that boys "don't want science. They want magic...