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...danger in all such ideas is that in their essentials they require that the U.S. offer a quid without realistic hope for a Russian quo. Surely, one Western demand in any negotiations should be that the Communists tear down the wall between East and West Berlin; in fact, the West should have prevented the wall's construction in the first place-a point increasingly recognized in Washington...
...wrong job." Along the sound track at appropriate moments float snatches of martial music, and after B-day ("our finest hour"), many a brave mug's eye is misty as he bids his mates farewell. Happily, the well-mannered British police, always ready to give quod pro quid, arrange for a touching reunion of The League-in quarters provided by Her Majesty...
...swarm of Harvard professors who have joined the lemminglike migration to the Kennedy Administration happily noted a quid pro quo: Phillip E. Areeda, a White House legal adviser to Dwight D. Eisenhower, departed Washington to join the faculty of Harvard Law School...
...buses from 32 states rolled into Albuquerque last week, 1,129 teenage voices inside howled in eerie chorus. The tunes sounded oddly like Hail, Hail, The Gang's All Here and Let Me Call You Sweetheart. They came out as "lo, lo, omnes adsunt,/ Quid curae est nobis/ Quid curae est nobis . . ." and "Vocabo te amicam/ Ego amo te/ Audiam te dicer e/ Te amare me . . ." It was the Junior Classical League, holding its seventh national convention at the University of New Mexico...
...ranks in bidding for $200 million more for military assistance (total: $1.8 billion), which the Democrats supported. In return, Halleck & Co. voted to restore U.S. aid ($515 million over ten years) to the Indus River project for India and Pakistan, a favorite liberal cause. On the strength of that quid pro quo, the coalition scored a smashing 212-173 roll-call victory, passed the aid bill to the openhanded Senate, which will likely push it close to Ike's original figure. ¶ The Senate spent half the fiscal 1961 federal budget by appropriating $40.5 billion for defense - $1 billion...