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...presidential wisdom: U.S. foundations "bet on horses that have won before." Then he launched a real horse race: Any department that comes up with a decent educational idea this year will get an extra $20,000. "We want something lasting, something that will influence the university's thrust toward excellence, something worthy of national significance, something that will prove to the educational world that the University of Dayton is serious...
...system in which, in fact, everything is under the command of the Americans and in which the Americans decide on the use of the principal weapons -in other words, the atomic weapons. But in ten years there have been many changes. France has regained its balance and its thrust and . . . has commenced setting up its atomic arm." He insisted that "if atomic weapons are to be stockpiled on French territory, these weapons should be in French hands," and called for the transformation of NATO into an old-fashioned entente in which each of the members would run its own defense...
Said Arkansas Senator J. William Fulbright, who will carry the brunt of the load in the Senate drive for repeal: "As much as some Americans may dislike it, the U.S. has been thrust into the center of world affairs. Either we move to strengthen the mechanisms of world peace -of which the World Court is a conspicuous example-or we continue to suffer increasingly the frustrations of a world in which there is no real peace...
...planets. But scientists are making plans just the same. The huge, multistage rocket with which Russia launched its Dognik could boost a 600-lb. capsule into orbit around the moon, and the size of the capsule can be increased by 100 Ibs. for each additional 20,000 Ibs. of thrust that Soviet scientists can coax from the boost er. Says a U.S. engineer: "The Russians probably could soft-land an instrument package on the moon within six months, and they should be able to make a manned landing within 18 months." The U.S. is hard at work on development...
...imagination has already begun to kindle. Not knowing why, she kisses a male cousin, then nervously examines pictures thrust at her by street boys. Abruptly the world is darkened. Director Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, a Swedish-descended Argentine, shows his debt to Sweden's Ingmar Bergman in simple scenes that to Ana take on a cast of evil-an old woman rapping angrily on a window with her crutch, a man's black-trousered legs visible beneath a mansion gate...