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Since the days when the Marshall Plan silently and efficiently rebuilt Europe, no phrase has possessed a more magic significance for the policy planner on a grand scale than "foreign aid." The professor who writes a manifesto for American action in foreign affairs, the Presidential candidate who appeals for his country's generosity and sacrifice as the qualities most essential for moving ahead, the President who delivers a moving State of the Union message on the wretched state of the underdeveloped countries: each one prophesies that if the cold war is to be won, and the suffering and poverty...
...bizarre," says athletic director Bolles, "but Leo is our type of fellow." ...Ted Halaby is the quarterback, as the varsity football team loses its opener.... An HDC member dissatisfied with the fall roster of plays blows up the Loeb Drama Center. Dean Harris says it will not be rebuilt, but will instead serve as a playground for the newly established Harvard Nursery School. The opening of integrated schools is marked by demonstrations in Atlanta, Tallahassee, Mobile, and New Rochelle...
...third vessel to bear the name. The original Constellation, a 36-gun frigate, the Navy's oldest ship, is now a museum piece at Fort McHenry, Baltimore. Her namesake, a sloop of war, was built in 1855-although some historians insist that this was the original ship rebuilt and restored. Another Constellation, scheduled to be a battle cruiser, was scrapped after her keel was laid, as a result of the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922. * On March 19, 1945, in the Inland Sea, the flag carrier Franklin was hit by two Japanese bombs, engulfed in flames and explosions...
...Formerly H.M.S. Vengeance, bought by Brazil from Great Britain for $16 million and rebuilt in Holland for another $14 million...
Soft-Spoken Crusade. For the U.S., as for thousands of U.S. servicemen's wives, the presidential directive marked the end of an easygoing era. Since 1950, with the rebuilt economies of Western Europe and Japan giving the U.S. brisk competition in international trade, the U.S. has found itself running increasingly into the red in its overall international accounts...