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...policy of retreat to what Hoover called a Western Gibraltar. Arizona's apple-cheeked Ernest McFarland, rising to his first test as a majority leader of the new Senate, gave the debate free rein: "It is this clash of honest judgment and conviction . . . which results in sounder policy," he said...
...other hand, the Yankees have little youth and Ed Lopat is their only slow-baller. All they have is more consistent and far more powerful batters, an infinitely superior double-play combination, a sounder and deeper front-line pitching staff, and the human winner, Joe DiMaggio...
...against the forces of Communist Ho Chi Minh. The second battle is now being prepared-an invasion abetted or led by Red China. The third battle, urgent and complex, is political, and it has to be won if the West is to establish relations with Indo-China on a sounder moral and material basis than the past lack of an Asian policy has allowed...
...damned if I see why I'm fighting to save this hell hole." Perhaps Reporter Johnston didn't realize that, in a battle area, G.I.s are apt to brush off or fliply answer a question they consider too personal or too demanding. But he got a sounder answer from a veteran of the Battle of the Bulge. "I'll tell you what I'm fighting for," he said. "I'm fighting for my life." So was the U.S.; so was the free world...
...subsidiaries-which roll sickness, accident, disability, death and pension benefits all into one jumbo package. Bell started the plans in 1913 on a pay-as-you-go basis, but in 1927 started setting up a reserve fund for pensions ("funding") because it thought the method sounder. (A.T. & T. now has more than $1 billion in its pension funds.) In computing Bell pensions, an employee's length of service is taken as a percentage (e.g., 20 years = 20%) and multiplied by his average annual pay for his ten highest-paid years (usually the ten years preceding retirement). The minimum pension...