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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...might be to let each side retain the areas it now controls while a neutral commission supervises balloting. Another might be an international commission to run the government while both sides compete at the polls. Still another might be what one diplomat calls a "Tammany Hall" solution-some yet unknown equation satisfying neither side but acceptable to both...
...Brien. Blount admits that he has developed a reputation as being "the worst politician in Washington," and there are few on the Hill who would disagree. He avoided consulting with congressional leaders on the new proposal until the last minute, for instance, and has remained practically unknown to the postal workers' union chiefs. O'Brien's political powers are obviously needed to soften the opposition, and he is cooperating...
...well has that policy actually worked? It has certainly not helped bring about the "passing" of Chinese Communism that the late John Foster Dulles hoped for. It has probably deterred Chinese expansionist impulses, although to what extent is unknown; the strength of such impulses has never been clear. One possible result of the policy is Peking's intense hostility toward America: the world's most populous nation (750 million people) seems convinced that the world's most powerful is bent on destroying it at the first chance. It cannot be proved, of course, that a different...
...plan to place returning U.S. astronauts in bacteria-proof "biological isolation garments." The book's thesis: puny man, poised on the edge of the new world of space, runs a great danger of upsetting the old world of earth. Each space capsule re-entering from orbit in the unknown is a potential bearer of extraterrestrial organisms capable of unleashing a biological plague...
...Biglin Bowl race. In the Sprints, M.I.T. was second to the Crimson, but a rather distant second. There is a possibility that Trinity's heavyweights might go to Henley, too, but their entry does not pose a major problem. The quality of the foreign competition this year is unknown...