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...special report published by the National Science Foundation. Nicholas DeWitt of Harvard's Russian Research Center gave as definitive an answer as anyone has given thus far. From Soviet statistics and publications, and from tales of refugees and foreign observers. Expert DeWitt has pieced together a bleak picture of a onesided education that is wholly in the service of the state...
...bleak early hours after his heart attack, President Eisenhower instructed Dr. Howard Snyder: "You tell Jim for me to take over." White House Press Secretary James C. (for Campbell) Hagerty. who had been vacationing at home in Washington, landed at Lowry Air Force Base that evening and took over. For the next seven days, until Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams arrived in Denver, Jim Hagerty was the only official link between the stricken President and the worried world...
...went to the party school in Berlin with Wilhelm Pieck, now puppet President of East Germany, grew up in Bremen's Socialist politics, was clapped into jail by the Nazis, released after two months and ordered to stay out of his city. Kaisen went no farther than the bleak moor, seven miles from Bremen, where the U.S. colonel found...
...picture was not entirely bleak, Rogers pointed out. In September 1954, 34,521 cases were pending in federal courts. Nine months later, on June 30, 1955, 29,979 cases were pending-a reduction of 4,542. "However," said Rogers, "we cannot be satisfied with the rate of reduction." Adding his voice to that of his deputy, Attorney General Herbert Brownell told the lawyers that the backlog was the department's No. 1 problem. "The immediate objective of the 94 U.S. Attorneys," he said, "is to obtain swifter justice in the courts of our land...
Soldiers Field was bleak and sodden yesterday, as rain filled the pockmarks on the practice fields. But despite the weather, Coach Lloyd Jordan and the varsity football team continued to concentrate only on preparing for the Cornell game Saturday...