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...vice president of Manhattan's Bankers Trust Co., proposed abolition of the requirement last year. The reason for questioning the reserve requirement is that it has not proved necessary. It was set up to guard against wildly inflationary printing-press money, a danger that the Government's prudent money managers have shown themselves capable of preventing without the need for the gold-backing Preventing law. The U.S. is the need world's only major nation with gold-backing requirements, which have actually been reduced over Switzerland and Belgium. The practical impact of the law is lost because...
...fear reprisals-their insurance can be yanked, or they can be bumped off the hospital staff or find empty chairs beside them at the medical banquets." Doctors' self-imposed silence has prompted two states-Massachusetts and Nevada-to permit use of standard medical textbooks in court to establish prudent practices...
...dependable ceasefire" in the area, said Dulles pointedly, "I think it would be foolish to keep these large forces on these islands. We thought it was rather foolish to put them there, and, as I say, if there were a cease-fire ... it would not be wise or prudent to keep them there." Ike backed him up: "I believe, as a soldier, that was not a good thing to do, to have all those troops there...
ICBMs: "Three separate systems-Atlas, Titan and Minuteman (and now Titan II)-are simply too many. The fear engendered by Soviet rockets has destroyed prudent judgment. We seem to be preparing not for retaliation but for obliteration...
...wandering onto a TV panel show, Castro, 33, called Kennedy, 43, and Nixon, 47, "ignorant, beardless kids." His eleven days in Manhattan had brought the showdown with the U.S. much closer. The U.S. embassy suggested to the 4,000 U.S. citizens still working in Cuba that they would be "prudent" to send home their dependents, and the State Department advised Americans not to visit Cuba...