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...advice. "Out of ... the political arena, a new and different President emerged-the man who led a political party to victory and retained in his hands the power of party leadership. That is, he retained it, like the sword Excalibur, if he could wrest it from the block and wield it." Presidential words carry great weight, said the ex-President, but they must be backed up by action: "Today there is the same need for a combination of words and action concerning the hysteria about Communism ... It is not the business of Congress to run the agencies of government...
...there is one parodist who seldom needs to wield this club over a self-anesthetized audience. Ira Wallach, who proved his wit in his "Hopalong Freud" series, has a new book, called "Gutenberg's Folly...
Vladimir Mikhailovich Petrov seemed rather elderly (about 45) to be only a third secretary, which was the post he filled for the past three years in the Soviet embassy at Canberra. But Petrov appeared to wield more authority than his rank called for. Plump and spectacled, he paid little attention to the rules of purdah for Russians abroad-he was affable, a good mixer, spoke fair English, frequented hotel bars, went on fishing trips with Westerners. With his pretty blonde wife, an embassy stenographer, he lived in a comfortable brick house less than a quarter of a mile from...
...Friedrich Engels. "Are the minds of our students," cried Beaty, "to be guided by B'nai B'rith ... or by Soviet Moscow ... or by assorted devotees of the little world power which usurps the name of 'Israel?' How did non-Christian power come to wield so great an influence in S.M.U...
...Look" was initially planned, not after it was already heralded as the cornerstone of U.S. strategy. Now, when no single European state can make serious claim to the position of a major power, the United States must count on the combined effectiveness of a united Europe to wield a balance of power over Russia. Any factor that serves to undermine European unity can therefore seriously weaken the strength of the Western block as a whole...