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Prompt action could easily forestal a sensational student response to the Committee's rebuff--the kind of well-publicized demonstration, already being proposed, that the Record American has been waiting four years to cover. Better still, it could consign future discussion of parietals to the inaudibility the issue so richly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sic Transi, Already | 10/9/1967 | See Source »

But the administration did not go along with the proposals. The President still wasn't convinced and Forestal "appeared to be more interested in unifying the services. He was probably worried over the relative buildup of the Air force over the Navy. We did not get the feeling that he...

Author: By Malcolm D. Rivkin, | Title: FACULTY PROFILE | 9/20/1951 | See Source »

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