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...proposed an immediate cut of U.S. and Russian forces to 2,500,-ooo each (an old figure that both sides have used at one time or another). A second-and third-stage cut bringing troop strength down to 1,700,000 could be left to the future and would depend on "political conditions...
They plan to invest $700 million there in the next four years, build pipelines from Hassi Messaoud and oil-rich Edjelé to coastal ports. Said French Chief Engineer Christian Redron at Hassi Messaoud: "In a few years we may no longer have to depend on the whims of a Nasser...
...doing it threw some 390,000 overseas dependents, along with 23,500 U.S. civilian employees of the armed forces, into a sort of legal no man's land. It also proved, if anyone had doubted it previously, that Supreme Court decisions depend heavily on the personalities and philosophical underpinnings of the justices who make them...
Finally, there is the possibility of expanding present colleges. For state colleges this will be a necessity; they will be forced to do so by the state legislatures on which they depend for financial support. For private institutions like Harvard, there is a choice--a choice based not primarily on money but on educational ideals, which makes it all the more difficult to decide...
...what was being said to him on very rare occasions, and predicting these moments was utterly impossible. The courses and the books which suddenly registered and left the deepest imprint on him seemed to be unrelated to the greatness of the subject-matter, author, or lecturer, and to depend almost entirely upon their relevance to his own inscrutable mental movement...