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inside Man. There already is an example on record. When Taylor heard that the Army was planning to scrap the mobile 13,700-man "pentomic" divisions he had devised in 1956, the former general complained so bitterly to the President about the trend back toward the 16,000-man divisions of World War II that the plan was promptly shelved. To the Pentagon, this sign of power was ominous enough, but what really worried the brass was the fact that Taylor could so strongly influence Kennedy last May-a long month before he got his new job on the White...
Russia and Red China have little in common save Communism, and even on that they disagree. The nature and the size of the split can shape the course of the cold war, and the West's strategists have studied every scrap of evidence to help map its dimensions. The split was papered over at the meeting of all the world's 81 Communist parties in Moscow last winter. Last week there was new evidence that the quarrel between the partners is becoming increasingly acrimonious. Writing in the London Sunday Times, Polish-born Kremlinologist Isaac Deutscher revealed an astonishingly...
...Ulbricht a few weeks ago, admitting that this "organized slave trade" with other Western activities in West Berlin, costs East Germany "one billion marks annually." What bothers Ulbricht is satellite East Germany's lagging rate of industrial expansion; it was largely shortage of labor that forced Ulbricht to scrap East Germany's aircraft industry a few months ago. In desperation, the party is urging housewives to go into the factories, and schoolchildren often "donate" a day of work in the fields...
...syllogism. If not armed with this weapon he could try a simpler trick, what might be called the "No Game" of slipping in a negative each time Miller makes a cosmic positive statement, thus: "Whitman is [not] the first [nor] the last poet" or "Let us [not] scrap the past instantly...
...from Murchison enterprises all over the U.S. directed the fight with a quartermasterly eye for organization. The U.S. was divided into 80 zones, and dozens of Murchisonians were sent to canvass Alleghany shareholders in each area. An IBM computer kept a running count of the committed proxies; each scrap of paper that might offer a clue to the Murchison's strength or strategy was burned lest it fall into enemy hands. So zealous were Murchison solicitors that even after the final voting began at the Alleghany annual meeting in Baltimore, they were searching ashtrays for torn-up Kirby ballots...