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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gleaming Weapon. Dulles was still very much alive and within telephone reach of both the State Department and the White House, but the sense of shock grew, nonetheless, out of the conviction that the free world could ill afford even the temporary loss of a unique cold-war leadership. A boy who had grown up dreaming of being not President but Secretary of State, a man who had trained for the job during 50 years of corporation law and international diplomacy, Dulles translated his respect for Theodore Roosevelt's lessons about peace-by-power and Woodrow Wilson...
...President suggested, has come to the point where it should pay normal interest rates on its new loans. "America is engaged in a great debate on the rule of government in the lives of her citizens. Shall government live within its means; shall our citizens, in a prosperous time, meet the cost of the service they desire of their government? Or is it to be our established policy to follow the ruinous route of free republics of the past ages, the route of deficit financing, of inflation, of taxes ever rising, until all initiative and self-reliant enterprise are destroyed...
...overseas bases in Western Europe, North Africa, Turkey, etc. will shortly be within range-if not now-of the U.S.S.R.'s first-generation intermediate-range (600-1,200-mile missiles and can be knocked out without warning...
After a three year Ford Foundation study on the economics of higher education, Harris has recommended that the nation-wide student-faculty ratio be increased from the present 13:1 to 20:1. Such a rise would reduce the costs of higher education by $1.5 billion a year within 10 years, he said...
...credit would provide encouragement without coercion; students would not have to enroll, but those who did would be likely to keep up with their work. A student's doing well in such a group could be an argument for his re-admission to honors and full-credit Tutorial 99 within his department, if he wanted. Otherwise, it is possible that the committee could, on the basis of a generally distinguished record and a long essay, as well as some sort of general examinations, give a degree with honors...