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Momentarily Ben Bella's drive seemed stalled; Kabylia's mountain passes, known as "The Gates of Hell," command the roads to Algiers, and a determined defense could easily thwart a Ben Bella military operation to take over the capital...
Boos & Hisses. Washington doubted that Russian technology could thwart a retaliatory thrust by U.S. missiles, and quickly answered Khrushchev's other charges. Khrushchev's denunciation of U.S. nuclear tests, said the State Department, was sheer hypocrisy, considering the fact that Russia broke the test-ban moratorium last fall. Furthermore, the Western Big Three, added Secretary of State Dean Rusk for the 11th time, will not pull out of West Berlin...
...five-member Senate Investigations subcommittee considered calling Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman, South Dakota's Karl E. Mundt and Nebraska's Carl T. Curtis, the only Republican members, issued a joint statement charging that Freeman was trying to "thwart" the hearings. Mundt and Curtis produced signed affidavits from Freeman aides declaring that a special search had been made of the correspondence between the Senators and the department going back to 1953. No such examination was made of the files on the three subcommittee Democrats. Thomas R. Hughes, Freeman's executive assistant, admitted ordering the search, but insisted that...
This radiation problem has a regrettable complement at Harvard, for the General Education hope that a citizen might have some comprehension of the problems of science and scientists is balked here. The sciences thwart General Education, which is pointless if it cannot teach the three areas of knowledge on a roughly equal level. Scientists in the University rarely agree to give Gen Ed courses, and the notable exceptions, men like Kemble, Cohen, Nash, Holton, and LeCorbeillier are left to keep on teaching the courses year in and year...
...Neison Lynch Bellinger, U.S.N., 76, a South Carolina-bred early-bird naval aviator who helped test the seaplane's long-range military capacity by flying one of the three NC flying boats in their transatlantic crossing, led during World War II the Atlantic Fleet Air Arm that helped thwart the U-boat menace; of a heart attack; in Clifton Forge...