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Unhealthy Gamesmanship. Though generally impressed by the great spurts the Russians are making in some areas, Western experts have strong reservations about the Soviet scientific setup as a whole. The centralized administration has advantages, but also produces an unhealthy sort of gamesmanship among scientists. To make sure that they fulfill the "projects for the coming year" that they must submit to the academy, some institute directors have resorted to the ruse of submitting as their "plan" what has already been accomplished the previous year...
...events, for The Big Sleep is imbued with as many dark shadows, black roadsters, languorous blondes, scotch whiskeys, rainy nights and attendant mackintoshes, muggings, pluggings, and gratifying resolutions as any of the epics of Bogie's prime. Lamentably, he is not in such a condition today; he is the sort of man the People could use in the White House. But I digress...
...must traditionally be,* to align Lebanon with the West, and later to accept the Eisenhower Doctrine. No sooner had he done so than Nasser flew into nearby Damascus to merge Syria into his new United Arab Republic and fire the hearts of Lebanese Moslems to join in the same sort of positive neutrality. Moslem opposition leaders were alarmed at the way President Chamoun, who won a three-quarters majority in last year's parliamentary elections, now proposed to alter the constitution so that he might run for a second term when his six-year term expires next September...
...scoring remarkable gains, have almost tripled their members (80% Maoris) in New Zealand to 17,000 in the last 30 years. They drew a crowd of 112,000 to a newly opened $8.000.000 church college and gleaming white temple, and this week set up the first Mormon "stake" -a sort of diocese -outside North
...first mistake is the decisive one. He marries an ambitious woman (Geraldine Fitzgerald), a sort of Lady Macbeth of Main Street who convinces him that he belongs in the White House. A sensible man, Joe has his doubts, but he throws his hat in. the ring -and $100,000 with it. The professional politicians gratefully scoop-up the $100,000, but blandly hand Joe his hat and show him the door. Joe feels pretty foolish, but he feels worse than that when he comes to understand the crimes he has committed in the name of power. He has broken...