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...Defense, or even by the Joint Chiefs of Staff acting as a unit. It was a combination of the requirements and goals of individual services-Army, Navy, Air Force-each trying to get as much money as it could. Nobody judged these claims in the light of an overall, supra-service plan based on the total military, political and economic interest of the U.S. Insofar as there was any standard for resolving conflicts and putting the budget together, the Joint Chiefs used what they called "the balanced-forces concept." This was a high-sounding name for the convenient but irrational...
...intellectual standards, yet the girls have style and 'elan', and take their highly varied and extensive social life well in their stride." Compared with other women's colleges, he said, "It ranks with Bryn Mawr and Barnard as the three leading intellectual colleges, yet it does not have 'the supra-heated steam intellectualism' of Bryn Mawr. Holyoke girls are too sweet and wholesome, while Wellesley girls don't measure up intellectually...
Fearing betrayal of citizens' rights, Bricker would protect them from encroachments by presidential treaty or agreement. He would further forbid cession of governmental duties to any supra-national body. Ratified treaties would always require a second approval by Congress to become law. And full-blown treaties would replace the more informal executive agreements...
...pure animal cunning, there is nothing that beats the "infra-supra ploy." You know that something is true, and you know the professor knows it is true, but you'll be hanged if you know why. So you launch into a scholarly essay on the subject. The first time you reach the point in question, you state the correct conclusion and in parenthesis say "infra" i.e. this will be proved later. Next comes eight or nine pages of malarkey--ponderous, confusing, perhaps even relevant in spots. Then you reach the conclusion, in which you restate the known "correct position...
...Supra-Political Plane. "I think I understand the governor," said Chicago's Democratic Boss Jacob Arvey. "He is not a candidate ... If, however . . . the nomination [were] given him . . . then no man could say no." Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey announced that Adlai was still "susceptible." New York Post Correspondent William V. Shannon explained that Adlai was just saying no to boost himself up to a "supra-political plane...