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...when Europe, with U.S. help, would have enough divisions to protect herself, thus making Russia think twice about her plans for world conquest...
Leverett ground out a 9 to 6 victory over an undermanned Adams team in he opener of the Arena doubleheader. Earlier--at 7:30 a.m.--Dudley posted its second straight conquest with a 3 to 1 defeat of Kirkland at the Boston Skating Club...
...Taft took his stand between two pillars of conviction. One was that war between Russia and the U.S. is not inevitable. He saw no "conclusive evidence" that the Russians contemplated starting a war with the U.S.; he did not even believe the Russians were going to attempt a military conquest of Western Europe. The other was that in the event of war, the U.S. could never hope to defeat Russia in a great clash of land armies. On these premises, Senator Taft built his case...
...industrialist, for 1950, although it produced more goods than any other year in the world's history, was not preoccupied with goods, but with life & death. Nor a scholar, for the world of 1950 was surfeited with undigested facts, and sought its salvation not in the conquest of new knowledge but in what it could relearn from old, old lessons. 1950's man might turn out to be the aging conspirator, Joseph Stalin, but as the year closed, that dreadful prospect was far from certain; if he was winning the game and not just an inning, Stalin...
...Yardlings swept to an easy 84 5/6 to 22 1/6 conquest of the Jumbo freshmen on the Tufts indoor oval...