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Later Monday evening, the organization reconsidered its position somewhat, but still agreed to press for Administrative action against the Navy Department's sponsorship of the film. Neither this recommendation, nor the attempted discourteous "sing-in" protest staged during the film, smack of liberalism, a political philosophy that places confidence in the free market of ideas to weed fact from propaganda...
...point at which the Germans could help directly to stem the rising flow of U.S. gold and dollars to Europe. All along, Adenauer's government has stubbornly resisted making any direct contribution to the support of U.S. forces in Germany, on the ground that this would smack too much of the old Occupation days. But as his showdown talk with Anderson approached, the Chancellor was reportedly resigned to kicking in at least $125 million annually through some dodge labeling the money as a NATO contribution...
Hobie Armstrong started out as though he had finally learned where to run, but soon dispelled that notion. On the Princeton six in the second quarter, Armstrong ignored daylight all around and ran smack into his interference and Tiger Ron Goldman. The resulting fumble hurt...
...tried to sell a pill to these lyrics yet, but any day now, some adman may. The U.S. is smack in the middle of a folk-music boom, and already the TV pitchmen have begun to take advantage of it. Pseudo folk groups such as the Kingston Trio (see SHOW BUSINESS) are riding high on the pop charts, and enthusiasm for all folk singers-real or synthetic-has grown so rapidly that there are now 50 or so professional practitioners making a handsome living where there were perhaps half a dozen five years ago. Last week, in far from mute...
Back to Marx. At this point, Douglas MacArthur II ran smack into two more unfortunate monuments to his uncle's administration of Japan. In the heady early years of the occupation, General MacArthur was somehow persuaded to let SCAP's Labor Division fasten onto Japan a set of labor-relations laws that gave Japanese unions a readymade war chest by imposing the dues "checkoff," and saddled the country with minimum standards for working hours, accident compensation, etc. matching those of the U.S. Desperately short of trained leaders, the unions all too often turned to Socialist and Communist agitators...