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Priority No. 1. Wrest away from the Communist Party the grip it holds today on 5,000,000 Frenchmen by giving back to the French people the long-forgotten feeling of social and material progress; in other words, by restoring hope...
...Senator from Missouri, son of the famed (1911-19) Speaker of the House Champ Clark; of a heart ailment; in Gloucester, Mass. As aide and understudy to his father, Bennett Clark, at 22, maneuvered desperately behind the scenes in the Democratic Convention of 1912 to help his father wrest the presidential nomination away from Woodrow Wilson. During his twelve years in the Senate, Clark alternately fought and supported the New Deal, in 1945 accepted an appointment to a U.S. circuit judgeship from Good Friend and Fellow Missourian Harry S. Truman, best man at Clark's second marriage...
Past Failure. In his 25 years of brutal collectivization and regimentation of the peasantry, Stalin failed to wrest enough food out of the Russian soil to feed his people; the output of some agricultural products (e.g., meat, milk, butter) fell below the 1916 levels of czarist days. Last September Nikita Khrushchev admitted the shortcomings of the Stalin program and announced a program of incentives to persuade the peasants to grow more. The Kremlin said consolingly that there was enough bread grain, but Khrushchev complained of severe shortages of livestock, vegetables (particularly potatoes), coarse grain and other fodder...
...donors, or for serum albumin and gamma globulin derived from such blood. But the A.M.A. and state medical societies claim that free blood-for any patients other than charity cases-is "socialism." In public statements some officials of county and state societies have shown that they are determined to wrest control of blood from "lay" groups...
...only after the most exhaustive efforts." The "general dance" which provides the framework of the central movement of the Canata draws into its whirl the Sacred History, the Lyke-Wake Dirge, the plaints of innocents and of sinners, and shapes a unified but very personal pilgrim's progress. To wrest objective experience from it, a listener must begin with a faith in this unity and yet with the expectation that it will be justified only eventually, by increasing familiarity with the work...