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...perhaps the gravest peril Russell sensed was that this was merely a prologue to future measures that could result "in an almost unilateral disarmament that could be ruinous." Added he, in a slap at the Administration: "It is my own belief that a comprehensive test ban that prohibited underground testing, but without adequate inspection rights, would have been entered into, except for the fear that the U.S. Senate would not consent to ratification...
...have done nothing more than delay the day of reckoning. There is nothing in the railway unions' record to indicate that they will reach a negotiated settlement on the issues that are not to be arbitrated. That being the case, the U.S. may again be confronted by a ruinous rail strike in six months-during a presidential election year, when passions run high and reasonable solutions are even more difficult to achieve...
...view is accepted in some quarters, mostly because it is a fact of present European life that the Russians cannot be moved out of East Germany, except by war, a West German surrender to Communism, or some kind of settlement for which West Germany might have to pay a ruinous price. As a result, many Germans are beginning to ponder measures that fall, short of actual reunification-such as trade pressure-designed to persuade Communist Boss Walter Ulbricht to give East Germans a little more freedom and a somewhat better life...
...ruinous mystique of gorgeous silk...
...rules. After strenuous negotiations, the two sides agreed to shelve the issue for three years. When the three years expired in 1959, the railroads set out to alter the work rules. Featherbedding, said Daniel P. Loomis, president of the Association of American Railroads, is "a handmaiden of the ruinous inflationary spiral. For the good of all America, something drastic must be done about this destructive growth. And 1959 is the year of decision...