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...Alliance--in which Kubitschek evidently places much confidence--he describes as "not just stop-gap assistance." One of his chief hopes is that it can stabilize commodity and raw material prices in South America...
Yale opened the second half looking for blood, and quickly closing the gap. Tearing down the court at break-neck speed, the Yalies succeded in changing the pace of the game and destroyed Harvard's control of the procedings...
...Russians demonstrated spectacular improvement in their weight-yield performance-on which the superiority of U.S. nuclear technology largely rested. U.S. experts believe that the Soviets have passed the U.S. in the large-yield weapons field, caught up with it in the medium-yield field, and are closing the gap in the low-yield range. This gives the Russians great military flexibility and enables them to place more powerful warheads on smaller missiles. The top Russian test blast of 58 megatons would have yielded 100 megatons if it had not been encased in a lead jacket, and U.S. experts estimate that...
...prominence in a time of no great domestic crisis. In this sense, Romney's emergence as a national figure has come less because it answers a real national need than because the internal state of American politics renders it very opportune. Republican leaders are running their party on "stop-gap" measures. As was pointed out in a special study of the Republican Party published last week, the party is in complete organizational disorder, from the understaffed precinct offices to the ideological chaos at the top. In effect, Romney's most immediate appeal is not to the people...
...Wallison's supporters see this considerable gap between is trying to make HYRC into a conservatives' organization, while Wallison realizes the club "should encompass all brands of Republicanism." Williams, furthermore, is generally regarded to be more extreme conservative than Wallison. At a Young Americans for Freedom meeting December 5 (both candidates are members of YAF), Williams cast the only negative vote on a resolution to express YAF's interest in securing civil rights legislation...