Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...congressional committee to check on U.S. aid to China. He applauded ECA's China mission, headed by San Francisco's ex-Mayor Roger Lapham, "for the excellent work it has done." But Bullitt was firmly convinced that U.S. economic and military aid would delay, but not prevent further Communist advances...
...Dramatic Struggle. Now, at 65, Ortega is not much changed by his years in exile. He has wandered from France to Argentina and to Portugal. But he is still the erect and fastidious intellectual, forever on guard against spotting his suits, always using his long holders to prevent cigarette stains. "If there is something that characterizes my life," he says, "it is that I have had to struggle with the world's dramatic future-the future always tending to shake the ground of the present on which I had my feet." Far into the night, Ortega still struggles with...
...Prevent Buck and Professor Seymour E. Harris '20 agreed last night that the Report of the President's Commission on Higher Education deals unnecessarily hard blows to privately-endowed institutions--but split in their definitions of the Report's underlying errors...
...America's own U.S. military machine, Forrestal said it badly needed cranking up. True, the U.S. did hold a "fair margin of superiority" on virtually every technical weapon. But even the atom bomb was neither sufficient to prevent attack, nor enough to insure victory after attack. Any war would require the best combined efforts of the Army, Navy and Air Force. And Jim Forrestal reported frankly that, after 15 months of "unification," they were a long way from being unified...
Britain may build a new African empire because of a discovery announced last week: a new synthetic drug called Antrycide, to cure and prevent trypanosomiasis (related to sleeping sickness) in cattle. The drug will be used in a vast area of Africa, larger than the U.S., where profitable ranching has long been impossible because of tsetse flies which carry the wiggly protozoan parasite of trypanosomiasis to domestic cattle, horses and hogs...