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...secrecy of the Armed Services Committee, and is therefore off the record. This may be true, but if it is, Saltonstall, as Chairman, must have had a significant role in shaping the Administration's "bigger bang for a buck" policy that brought drastic cuts in U.S. military strength. The prudent economy of the "old Yankee," as Saltonstall is sometimes pictured in his campaign posters, is a little useless when it weakens the nation. Such policies led to significant loss of U.S. prestige when the country was asked to put up or shut up in Indo-China...
...following day Hazel made her crashing entrance into the U.S., ripping at fishing piers and crumpling bungalows along the Carolina coast. Eighty big Navy vessels fled to sea from Norfolk, Va., while military planes scrambled for safe airports as far away as Kansas. In Washington the General Services Administration, prudent and economical, ordered flags hauled down from most federal buildings; one left up on the Capitol was whipped to shreds. Chicken houses in rural Maryland collapsed by the hundreds, and incubator stoves set the wreckage on fire. The windy night was rosy with flame, and terrified, liberated hens flapped through...
...refugees were top officials of the old regime, notably Arbenz himself, most of his Cabinet and a quorum of Congress. Others were panicky henchmen, fearful that they might be held responsible for the last month of Red terror, beatings and killings. In bad conscience, many thought it prudent to take with them wives, children, and even servants...
...scientist or any other intellectual may be brought into question, scientists and intellectuals are ill-advised to assert that a reasonable and sane inquiry constitutes an attack upon scientists and intellectuals generally. This board would deplore deeply any notion that scientists are under attack in this country and that prudent study of any individual's conduct and character within the necessary demands of the national security could be either in fact or in appearance a reflection of anti-intellectualism...
...ground of "fairness," many a Southern newspaper has stopped identifying Negroes as such, especially when the description is not really relevant to the story (TIME, Oct. 9, 1950). Last week Southern newspapers learned that dropping the race tag can be prudent as well as fair. In Mississippi Mrs. Mary Dunigan, a waitress, sued the Natchez Times (circ. 5,438) for mistakenly identifying her as a Negro. Although the paper printed an apologetic correction, the State Supreme Court at Jackson last week awarded her $5,000 damages. Ruled the court: "In this state, to assert in print that a white woman...