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...three preconditions to a top-level conference: 1) it must follow ratification of the Paris pacts, 2) it must be clear at the outset that the conference would not become a niggling debating session or a propaganda springboard, and 3) the conferences should not include Western Germany or Communist China...
With this evidence of infidelity as a springboard, he began to search for further fraud. The end was a book that glares in ill-concealed suspicion at every aspect and every facet of the Lawrence legend...
...fanciest parties and loudest brawls, but his columns also include such items as: "When the Jelke trial opens-the chi chi neighbors along 72nd Street will hear all about the $300-a-month apartment [call] girls operated there." In San Francisco, Chicago and many another city, charity is the springboard...
Export or Die. The resurgence of German trade in Latin America is a direct result of West Germany's postwar industrial comeback and its historic need to "export or perish." The springboard was the war in Korea, which frightened Latin America into loading up on cars, printing presses, lathes, blast furnaces, chemicals and generators in return for coffee, cocoa, sugar, bananas, wool and hides...
...home, some of those contacted expected the Democrats to take up Republican investigative methods and delve into government policies on public vs. private power. Maass pointed out that Senator Estes Kefauver may be provided with another springboard to public attention by heading a committee investigation of the Dixon-Yates affair and the Securities Exchange Commission...