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...world is knit together today, there is nowhere where American influence does not count, nowhere where it may not be markedly beneficent," wrote London's Spectator last week. "Nothing indeed demonstrates that more clearly than the sense of vacuum created when
...Every significant act of Government should be so timed . . . so related to other governmental actions that it will produce the maximum effect . . . We shall no longer have a Department of State that deals with foreign policy in an aloof cloister, a defense establishment that makes military appraisals in a vacuum . . . We must bring the dozens of agencies and bureaus into concerted action under an overall scheme of strategy...
Since the convention, Shivers has been suspended in a strange political vacuum. He is against Stevenson and Sparkman, yet he hasn't said he will vote for the Republican nominees. But he is expected to follow the pattern set by Jimmy Byrnes and Louisiana's Governor Robert F. Kennon, and announce that he will vote for Eisenhower...
General Manager Ted Cott, of Manhattan's station WNBC, is a man who abhors a vacuum. In February the Civil Defense authorities asked him to keep WNBC on the air from midnight until 6 a.m. so that the station would be ready to function instantly in case of an emergency. All the Civil Defense required was a constant tone signal. Instead, Cott decided to fill the six hours with classical music and see what would happen...
...Standard (N.J.), Socony-Vacuum, Standard of California, Texas Co., Gulf; Anglo-Iranian, Royal Dutch-Shell...