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...What is the hurry about all this?" he demanded. "The international situation today is more favorable than it has been for some time . . . Does anybody think that the people of this country will feel safer against the prospect of war if German armies with Nazi officers have atom bombs? Really, it seems to me a piece of wanton frivolity to bring forward a proposal of this kind and discuss it as a diplomatic triumph." Eden was "squeezed into submission by Mendès-France and Foster Dulles. So far from it being a triumph, it was the most ignominious surrender...
...present, however, most foundations are unwilling to allocate their cash for small projects. They argue that it is easier to make advance checks and evaluations on ten large grants than on hundreds of small gifts. It is also safer, they say, to give money to mature scholars completing studies than to young faculty members of less reputation who are exploring new fields...
...system, in which all courses are elective after the first year, only a handful of students take many of the more radical policy courses. In preparation for bar examinations and for future practice of the law, most see that the standard courses in Torts, Contracts, and so forth, are safer and perhaps more valuable...
...should commission the very best artists available, and not quibble over the artists' beliefs. His reasoning: "Where traditions are still living traditions, minor artists are enough to insure the continuous production of whatever art religion may require. But . . . to effect a revival of liturgical art it would be safer to turn to geniuses without faith than to believers without talent." Couturier missed one point: the improvising geniuses of an age weak in formal faith can scarcely be expected to rival those of the distant past, who possessed both the strength of faith and the assurance of an accepted style...
...main source of revenue; Britain salvaged a handsome reward from what once seemed a total loss; the U.S. found itself participating for the first time in one of the world's richest oilfields. More than that, a strategic chunk of the globe's surface was made safer from Communist penetration. Last week, in the cool garden of Elah-yeh Palace outside Teheran, Iran's Finance Minister and a U.S. oil negotiator put their initials on a settlement of the vexed Anglo-Iranian oil dispute. A formula had at last been found by which a combine of eight...