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...said that he "deplored" the exchange of criticism and reply on official actions; that when he himself is accused he does not expect to answer; and that America's interests will be best served "if we do not indulge in this kind of thing." Richard Nixon called this "an unsound idea" ("one of the reasons the Republican party is in trouble today") and insisted on the opposite policy. John Foster Dulles took turns agreeing with both and then issued a "clarification" showing that there hadn't been any real disagreement all along...
With Due Deference. The Peking meeting was an undisguised personal reverse that could only strengthen the position of the men in Moscow who had regarded his Mideast summit policy as rash and unsound. The Russian censors even let pass an A.P. dispatch suggesting that Khrushchev's stature had been diminished in Moscow...
...filed to collect insurance, investigators double-checked both the primary cause of death and other contributory diseases with the physician who signed the death certificate, and (if possible) with the results of post-mortem examinations. Where the Hammond-Horn study had been attacked by the tobacco industry as statistically unsound because of the investigators' bias, the Dorn-VA investigation could not be assailed on the same ground, although even before formal publication it was criticized by industry spokesmen ("It cannot possibly establish the cause or causes of any diseases"). The findings, startlingly similar to those of the American Cancer...
...responsibility of organizing and leading troops of different nations. Should present-day France, if I may say this in passing, perhaps resort to the same solution by giving one man, or better, a small team, temporary power to reform its political institutions, which, as everyone agrees, are unsound...
...Committee, which has been compiling its report since November, declared that "the present Council is organizationally unsound; we do not feel that it really represents the student body." A "basic need for a student representative body" was asserted, however...