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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Into the Pentagon last week drummed word from the White House that defense spending for fiscal 1961 must be held at or below the present $41 billion level. The services estimated that they would need $43 billion to $44 billion just to maintain present strength and cope with the rising costs of personnel and weapons. Obviously some serious cuts were coming. Best guesses...
...group, only four spoke English well, Vlasenko, Krivopalov, Voschinin, and philogy student Elvira Astafyeva, and as might be expected they often were the most popular with students. A special word must be said for Vlasenko who perhaps won the hearts of a score of Radcliffe girls with his charm...
...course the word "student" used to describe the group is a misnomer since only seven of the 12 are in fact students, but many Americans who visited the U.S.S.R. on "student" delegations this summer were also out of school...
There was no word from the officials themselves. But the Evening News and many of the officials favored the open meet, in which amateur and pro players would compete...
...totalitarian state, wrote Bishop Dibelius, has no claim to the Biblical status of "the powers that be." In a totalitarian system "there is no right in the Christian sense of the word . . . Paul's words are set aside." Encountering a speed-limit sign along a highway in the free world, wrote Dibelius, he would not hesitate to slow down. But not in East Germany. First, because the speed limit would not be applied equally to ordinary citizens and Communist functionaries and because the slowdown would be made necessary, in all likelihood, by some immoral purpose, such as starving...