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...establish "military posture" was a decision that involved risks and limitations. The chief limitation was that the U.S. as yet had no global foreign policy. There were hosts of issues as yet unresolved. What was to be the future U.S. policy towards Korea and Japan? Was the U.S. to abandon Korea and cling grimly to Japan? Even more important, what would the U.S. do about the front in China...
Father rats pay no attention to their children (they don't know which' are theirs), but mother rats make cozy nests for their six litters a year. They always abandon their young when threatened, but when unmolested show tender regard for their infants' education. No adolescent rat is allowed to leave the nest until old enough to fend for itself. Its mother guides it out, trains it to keep close to walls, teaches it caution by testing all food for poison. -She warns against dogs, cats and traps. Specialist Nicholes believes that rats have some sort...
...been to democratize admissions and to broaden the student body of Harvard College, than it does for those non-scholarship students who cannot afford more than they are now paying, or than it does for those students in high-schools throughout the country who will now be forced to abandon the idea of going to Harvard. Absolute necessity is the only thing that could force a rise in tuition in the face of this sentiment; and within the framework of the University's basic financial policies, that absolute necessity exists...
...drastically different form, under diminutive Clinton D. McKinnon, a shrewd newsman who pyramided a string of Southern California throwaway shopping papers into the million-dollar San Diego Journal (which he recently sold). He offered to take over from Field if the C.I.O. American Newspaper Guild unit would abandon its tough PM contract and meet his tough terms, including the right to hire & fire at will for three months. The reported price tag: $300,000 for plant & equipment...
Decision to abandon plans for the long-proposed trip came when the Club's main foreign backers indicated that high costs in transportation, food, and lodging, coupled with a recent slump in concert audiences, would render "inadvisable" any tour for at least a year...