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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...took the offensive against critics of the Administration's proposed defense budget. The new defense program, he said, "allocates funds as justly and as wisely as possible among the three armed services." Then the President turned to the "fortress" theory of U.S. foreign policy, the up-to-date version of isolationism dear to many a Midwestern heart. Said he: "All of us have learned-first from the onslaught of Nazi aggression, then from Communist aggression-that all free nations must stand together or they shall fall separately." Rejecting the "partial unity" advocated by Ohio's Bob Taft...
...enjoyed your colorful version of my years in the Foreign Service (TIME, May 25), and particularly your generous description of my being one "who has proved himself one of the best ambassadors the U.S. has ever sent to Latin America." However, rather than "pleading to be kept on," I would prefer to be regarded as a friendly pleader for El Salvador's special role, not only as a nation sympathetic to our objectives, but as the showcase for a dynamic approach to the problems that are currently plaguing all Latin America...
...yielded two better-grade British movies, Brief Encounter and The Astonished Heart. Now three more of the original nine short plays have been transferred to the screen in a richly Technicolored episodic movie. Directed by Anthony (The Rocking Horse Winner) Pelissier, who was a featured player in the stage version, the picture is sometimes long on talk and short on the high sparkle that Coward and the late Gertrude Lawrence gave it in the theater, but it is a faithful, well cast and generally satisfying movie...
Call Me Madam. Ethel Merman sparkplugs a big, bouncy movie version of her Broadway hit musical about a diamond-in-the-rough lady ambassador (TIME, March...
Leading the Crimson tomorrow in this year's version of the oldest intercollegiate event in America will be Captain Phil DuBois and stroke Larry Brownell, who stroked the boat for the EARC regatta...