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With sure, broad strokes, Eisenhower painted a worldwide canvas of struggle between freedom and Communism. He brought together many complex factors -geography, national history, economics, ideology, production, living standards, morale-that affect the defense of the North Atlantic. Salient passages...
...total health requirements" and to report within a year on what should be done about them. The commission seemed to be a planned withdrawal from the Truman-Ewing "compulsory national health insurance" program, which had won the Administration few friends, made many enemies who denounced it as socialistic. Salient items in the new approach...
...athletic scholarships. ¶The Pacific Coast Conference formally adopted an "honor system" for policing its own backyard against the evils of subsidization. The men put on their honor: the college presidents. ¶ The Eastern College Athletic Conference (representing 89 colleges) met to consider a seven-point reform movement. Salient point: elimination of outright athletic scholarships. ¶ The Big Seven Conference not only banned bowl games but even agreed not to play in postseason tournaments (e.g., the Madison Square Garden basketball championships) sponsored by the National Collegiate Athletic Association. ¶Southern Conference officials voted to suspend the University of Maryland...
...Your recent write-ups on organized vice, municipal corruption, McCarthyism and moral deviation in high places surely must have brought home to a lot of readers the one salient fact that the U.S. . . . shouldn't be allowed to fumble on as a self-governing country...
...allied advance in the center and the Reds' tenacious stand in the east had left them with a huge salient bulging into the Eighth Army's right flank. Last week, hopeful dispatches mentioned the possibility of cutting off this salient by a thrust from the Pyonggang area north to the port of Wonsan. On the map, another allied move seemed to be possible: an invasion of the Wonsan area from the sea. If a beachhead could be established there, the base of the enemy salient could be squeezed from both sides and .would probably become untenable. It would...