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...their respective armament and undertaking not to increase it, the U.S., the U.S.S.R. and Red China would agree to limit their armed forces to 1,500,000 men each, Britain and France to 650,000 men each. (These are the figures originally proposed by Britain, against Malik's previous stubborn insistence on one-third reduction all around, a proposal that favored the big armies of Russia and Red China.) In the first stage, nuclear nations would promise not to use nuclear weapons unless the Security Council decided they were acting "in defense against aggression. " The dismantling of foreign bases...
...Tito into the Moscow camp--there is little chance of that--but to draw one more state from the Western defense system into a great neutral chain the length of Central Europe. The aspect of this latest venture which is not so obvious is its great departure from previous Soviet policy. In the present case, the move is not primarily military, as, say, was the establishment of the Berlin blockade or the arming of the satellite nations. Moscow now is holding out to Tito the promise of real economic concessions from which Yugoslavia can clearly benefit. And if the trend...
...score of Seventh Heaven was concocted--written would hardly be the correct word--by Victor Young, whose previous efforts were restricted mostly to background music for motion pictures. His tunes abound with sound effects, including a multitude of blaring trumpet calls and drum rolls, but they make only a momentary impression. Young apparently aimed his songs at the jukebox trade, hoping to have them hammered irretrievably into the memories of the public. After hearing them only once, however, I found that I neither could nor wanted to remember any of them...
...life. Such reflection is precisely consistent with his theory of history, which holds that no event is inevitable and that any minute happening may profoundly change the world. Specifically, Karpovich tries to show the Western nations that the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 was not an "inevitable," unavoidable result of previous Russian history. He points out that there is no basic affinity between communism and the Russian national character, and that--as Lenin himself admitted--the October Revolution could never have succeeded if the war had not demoralized the country at just that time. Thus the fate of Russia, different today...
...first round of match play, Sunday morning, Cooney defeated Dave Stotz of Cornell, one up, and Stokes downed Don Purple of Dartmouth, 7 and 6. Cooney continued his winning ways in the afternoon to avenge his only previous defeat this season by defeating Ben Murphy of Boston College, 3 and 2. Stokes advanced by eliminating the Elis' Pete Nisselson...