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This situation seems to be chang-William E. Welmers, professor African Languages at U.C.L.A., has to staunch defender of the language programs since their Inauguration at 1958. Explaining U.C.L.A.'s approach concerning African in a letter to the CRIMSON, "The usual attitude has we can't teach them all, so teach any. My attitude ... we can't teach them all, so we" prepared to teach ANY, as arises...
...Scripps-Howard New York World-Telegram, a staunch 1960 supporter of Nixon, commented dryly: "One especially wonders how he'd have explained himself if he had been elected President-committed and willing to execute the Cuba plan that he had denounced as 'dangerously irresponsible.' " Last week the left-wing Nation triumphantly flushed another controversy from Nixon's book. "Richard M. Nixon," it said, "has just kicked a large hole in his -and the Government's - case against Alger Hiss." The hole: Nixon's statement that FBI agents in December 1948 had found...
...skirmish broke out over who was going to get star billing as the lead-off Administration witness. Under Secretary of State George W. Ball, the principal framer of the bill, wanted to be the chief witness. But the Ways and Means Committee's Chairman Wilbur D. Mills, a staunch friend of the bill, wanted the Administration to lead off with Commerce Secretary Hodges. Mills's reasoning: the State Department is not popular in the House; starting off with State would emphasize the foreign relations aspects of the trade bill, intensify normal congressional wariness. Starting off with Commerce would...
...debut on Capitol Hill came at an inauspicious time. The Republican Party was going through one of its darkest periods: there were just 16 G.O.P. members in the Senate. Bridges soon established himself as a staunch conservative and, as a ranking member of the Appropriations Committee (which he chaired during four sessions of Congress), a merciless money trimmer. But his conservatism applied mostly to domestic matters. Before World War II, he fought hard for Lend-Lease and increased military appropriations; after the war, he joined with Michigan's Republican Senator Arthur Vandenberg to back the Marshall Plan...
...Under Secretary of State George Ball gave staunch support to linear agreements in place of the nation's present maze of reciprocal trade agreements. GATT-wide adoption of the linear approach would mark the boldest move yet toward free trade in the free world...