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This project does not even have an official name; it was not even announced, only leaked. Its existence means that the West's original, highly touted but overadvertised MEDO (Middle East Defense Organization) is dead. MEDO, in fact, was stillborn. In November 1951 the U.S., Britain, France and Turkey proposed a Middle East Command as a kind of eastern extension of NATO, complete with blueprints for bases, armies and fleets, and a headquarters at Cyprus. It had everything, in fact, but the support of the people most concerned...
...doctors have been learning how to save the lives of babies born with blood disorders caused by Rh-factor differences in their parents (TIME. Nov. 28, 1949). But in 17% of these pregnancies, the doctors have had no chance to use their new-found skills because the babies were stillborn. What was needed was a technique to save their lives in the womb...
...week, however, was that more & more Frenchmen were beginning to agree on one of the major causes of their chronic parliamentary crises. The cause: the constitution of the Fourth Republic, which came into force in 1946 and since has spawned 15 consecutive governments ranging in health from sickly to stillborn. So long as the constitution remains unchanged, Frenchmen are beginning to realize, premiers and cabinets are bound to come & go with distressing frequency...
...part of my inheritance." His father, Amos Parker Wilder, was a Maine Congregationalist who took the pledge at seven, a Ph.D. in economics at Yale, and finally bought a newspaper in Madison, Wis. By the time a set of twins came along (Thornton's brother was stillborn), Amos Wilder had developed his own notions of education. Outside his own home, he was all charm and wit; as an after-dinner speaker, he could rival Chauncey Depew. But in his own home, he was a dominie indeed...
...this has been applied is easier to spot. Conant may not have conceived General Education, but without this vigorous support it would have been stillborn. His influence, and that of Provost Buck whom he appointed, on admissions policy and its emphasis on diverse backgrounds and interest, and on the House system, where this diversity is bound up in several units, are two other excellent examples...