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Dates: during 1950-1959
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High on the list of the U.S.'s Paris aims is a start toward the far-reaching decision to supply NATO partners with intermediate-range ballistic missiles as soon as the U.S. has any to deliver (TIME, Nov. 25). That enormous undertaking is complicated by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, which bars the U.S. from turning over nuclear arms to foreign nations in peacetime. At his press conference last week, Dulles confirmed that by present law the U.S. would have to keep nuclear warheads for NATO missiles under its own "technical custody." But the U.S. could deliver missiles...
...party that has never forgotten the debacle of Catholic Al Smith in 1928 (to prove himself a winner outside heavily Catholic Massachusetts, Kennedy has little choice but to enter perilous presidential primaries in 1960). His youth, now so appealing, may be turned against him when the Democrats start seeking "mature" leadership (Kennedy figures it would help if Dick Nixon, just four years older, were the Republican candidate). He is, in many aspects, a conservative, and 1960 could conceivably bring the rejuvenation of the liberals ("In a militantly liberal convention I wouldn't have a ghost of a chance...
...play was The Troublemakers, a drama about college students who beat to death another boy because of some campus newspaper articles he had written.* Director John Frankenheimer (Williams. '51), a gangly TV veteran of 27, was disappointed from the start with George Bellak's TV adaptation of his original play. So Frankenheimer called in TV Author Rod (Requiem for a Heavyweight) Serling to doctor the script. With accomplished Actor Ben Gazzara to play the role, Frankenheimer wanted to expand the part of Stanley, the dead boy's roommate, who makes an effort to stop the fatal roughhouse...
Harrington provided the most dramatic push to Crimson efforts when, after being put into the starting lineup for the first time after the six-game losing streak, he proceeded to lead all scorers in the next five games, all Harvard victories. He is a pint-sized (5-7) junior guard, with the best set shot and dribbling techniques seen at the I.A.B. in many years. Despite his late start, he gave Woolston a close call for scoring honors, averaging about 20 points per game, and should be even better with a year's experience behind...
...hostess refilled his glass for the third time. "Be careful," he winked at her, "or I'll start to split infinitives...