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...basic Russian position: the Soviet Union and Communist China are the real champions of world peace; the North Atlantic Treaty Organization must be scrapped; U.S. bases abroad must be abandoned; Red China must be admitted to the U.N.; and the Big Nation veto, which the Russians have used to thwart the peacekeeping function of the U.N.'s Security Council, must be allowed to operate even more widely than it has in the past...
PRIVATE BUSINESSMEN will soon take over more businesses operated by the U.S. Government. Though patronage-minded members of Congress have tried to thwart the program of getting the Government out of business through legislation requiring the Administration to clear every cutback with committee chairmen (TIME, July 25), President Eisenhower has said that he will ignore the demand, has ordered 14 more federally operated businesses closed down. Among them: four coffee-roasting operations, two paint-manufacturing plants, a rope factory...
...Supreme Court must of course rely on District Courts for help in enforcing its decrees, but it should not rely on District judges for policy decisions, however complicated the social problems may seem. For as new District Court vacancies occur, Southern Senators will resort to "Senatorial courtesy" to thwart appointment of judges who would proclaim a rapid integration policy...
...figures reveal the average trip takes at least 9:14," a committee spokesman said. The exaggerated claim is apparently part of the MTA's attempts to thwart Mayor Foley's Plan to remove the kiosk, the spokesman added...
...American Legion, and slipped past the old G.O.P. powers to win the Republican nomination for governor. Elected in a landslide in 1952, he set out to 1) make a good record as governor, and 2) get control of the G.O.P. organization. Jenner forces dug in to thwart him on both counts...