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Truman's approach to world diplomacy remained pure Kansas City. He found Stalin the Soviet dictator "as near like Tom Pendergast as any man I know." (Pendergast was the boss of Democratic politics in Missouri for almost 30 years.) Truman's intentions, according to Mee, were to thwart the Russians in Europe by stalling off a German peace treaty and keeping the Soviet Union out of the Japanese war till the bomb could clinch it for the U.S. He largely accomplished both aims, but neither was much in keeping with the visions of postwar harmony that much...
Rusher did not try to thwart Shockley's incessant stream of statements about heredity determining 80 per cent of our intelligence. He skirted Shockley's assumption that the "agony of the American Negro" could be related to his genetic properties, an assumption that Shockley claims could be wrong in only one out of 20,000 cases...
...sides, underwrote an opaque conflict that neither generals nor Presidents quite comprehended. The tragedy was only heightened by the fact that the U.S. entered the war not for any base reasons, but out of an understandable desire-although many saw the conflict as merely a civil war-to thwart Communist aggression. Even Senator J. William Fulbright, long a foe of the American involvement in Viet Nam, concedes that the war was not fought "because of any bad motives or evil purposes, but because some of our leaders didn't understand the situation...
...good relations with the Common Market, where half the nation's exports are sold. The franc has been under pressure from the recent weakness of the U.S. dollar, and the Swiss are seeking closer economic ties with their neighbors - a thrust that is hardly helped by attempts to thwart the Common Market's policing authority. As one EEC official put it: "A lot of companies have their European headquarters in Switzerland. Something like this could happen every time we investigate one of them. Adams didn't turn the information over to a rival pharmaceutical firm. He gave...
...goal to Terry Meagher at 16:05 a low shot from in close that found its way between Petro's legs. A banner from the balcony read "Only the Lord Saves More Than Petro." but last night the Crimson netminder could have used a little divine intervention to thwart the relentless Terrier attack...