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Sabotage of ERP by the USSR is still a "genuine threat," but Mr. Harris maintains that Russian opposition to the recovery program has boomeranged. The aggressive tactics of the Soviet Union have stimulated military and foreign aid expenditures in the United States. The danger of a depression in the U.S. has been postponed by these expenditures, he stated...
...most famous bells in the college are rarely heard these days. The seventeen-bell Russian carillon, or zvon, which hangs in the tower of Lowell House was the gift of Charles R. Crane. It was brought from the USSR in 1931, accompanied by a carillon expert who started to perform immediately. Since the architects who designed Lowell House had not counted on a zvon, the seventeen iron lungs shook and reverberated through the new structure so much that the residents, now known as Bellboys, erupted into the courtyard, banging pots and pans every time the expert let go. The musician...
...appreciation exists here," Schlesinger observed, "for the extent of exasperation toward the USSR in Europe on the part of everyone except the Communists...
...Center was established last December under a grant from the Carnegie Corporation to "supply American scholars with an outline of some of the gaps in this nation's knowledge of the USSR...
Russia charged last night that the United States is leading a plot to split Europe and build up Germany's militia "for the purpose of aggression against the USSR." A Soviet note to America, Britain, and France and the major Western powers are deliberately trying to liquidate the four-power Council of Foreign Ministers...