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National Defense. Provide for a "second-strike nuclear retaliatory power capable of surviving surprise attack" and "a capacity for limited warfare that can deter or check local aggression." Needed: "Additional and improved bombers, airborne alert, more missiles of existing types, speeded production of Polaris submarines, the promptest possible dispersal and hardening of bases, and a program for civil defense." Previously, Rocky estimated the extra bill at $3.5 billion...
Dean William D'O. Lippincott said early today, "There are several aspects of this case that bother me, but still I can hardly believe that any of our Princeton undergraduates would be implicated in such an act of violence. Certainly my office will give the matter the promptest attention, but of course things must go through channels. We must not be hasty...
...Harvard's Economist Sumner Slichter that the Administration had done too little to combat recession. On the contrary, said Burns, it had done a great deal, notably in loosening credit and cutting taxes. The Federal Reserve Board's first credit-easing step, in May 1953, "was the promptest response to an economic decline ever taken by a central bank in any country...
...asking the exact space allowance for bookcases in the U. S. Embassy, had promptly received statistics. Needing a private secretary, he had offered the diplomatic opportunity to rugged Nephew Henry Dawes. one year out of Williams College, oil company clerk in Columbus, Ohio. Nephew Dawes had promptly, diplomatically accepted. Promptest of all was Oxford University, which was to make Ambassador Dawes a Doctor of Civil Law almost immediately on his arrival. Simultaneously receiving the same degree would be Spanish Ambassador Alfonso Merry del Val, brother of the urbane and genial Cardinal, and Egyptian Prime Minister Mohamed Mahmud Pasha...
...Photographic Committee desire to thank the individual members of the class for their promptness in sitting for their photographs. Ninety-six is by far the promptest class that has ever sat for the photographer...
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