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Having told their people for so long of the impossibility of accepting defeat, the Arab leaders will have to teach them to accept the inevitable postwar concessions if they hope to survive negotiations. And negotiations must come, no matter how long the Arabs drag their feet. King Hussein runs a very real danger to his own person and throne for his efforts, but in the long run he is bound to help the Arab cause by raising a voice of comparative reason and moderation at a time when Arabia needs it more than ever before...
...victory was doubly embarrassing to U.S. lady pros because she is not even a full-time golfer. She has been playing the game ever since she was eight, won the French junior championship in 1964, the French Ladies' Open this year. But too much golf is a drag. "I get fed up every October," she says, "so I just don't play all winter-except for maybe nine holes a week. After a tournament, I always quit for a week. I think golf should be fun, and I wouldn't have much fun as a pro." During...
John K. Fairbank '29, Francis Lee Higginson professor of History said last night that there is "a better than 50-50 chance that the United States will have a knock down, drag out conflict with the Chinese regime." Fairbank admitted, however that his warning was "more an emotion than a scientific judgment...
...would back an increase even larger than 6%, "if warranted," after Congress makes this year's appropriations. Unlike Ackley, who based his argument on bullish expectations of a strongly rising market for durable goods, a burst of spending for factories, and an early end to the economic drag of falling business inventories, Martin accentuated the negative...
...better part of nine days, Thomas Joseph Dodd had asked ever more plaintively for an end to the proceedings. "Don't drag me through any more," he implored. "Give me my rest either in sorrow or relief." Last week, as weary of the debate as Dodd himself, the Senate complied. It voted, 92 to 5, to censure the senior Senator from Connecticut for bringing the Senate into "dishonor and disrepute" by wrongfully taking $116,083 in campaign funds for his own use. He was only the seventh Senator in 178 years to be formally condemned by his colleagues...