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...into war in Europe and elsewhere. But practice has been far from theory. In Quemoy and Matsu, in Lebanon and Korea, the applied weapon was a show of conventional force or the boom of conventional guns. In Washington last week, the Kennedy Administration began moving toward closing the doctrinal gap by placing new emphasis on the U.S.'s conventional-war capability...
...went right ahead and revalued the Mark upward 5%, increasing its value to four to the dollar. The announcement came one day before the arrival of U.S. Ambassador-at-Large Averell Harriman, who would be happy to hear of any gesture toward helping close the U.S.'s dollar gap...
Although the strong appreciation of innovation in music today is laudable, the results of this emphasis have not all been good. The great gap between the many techniques of composition today inflate the art's factional politics; the neoclassicists rail at the atonalists for their dehumanized experimentation and the latter hiss back at their opponents's "superfiuous," "reactionary" conservatism. If a composer finds no camp congenial, he must have great skill to select the elements from several schools, integrate them into a distinctly personal idiom, and still avoid the short-comings of a patchwork eclecticism...
...basic purpose, he asserted, is to fill the "man-power gap" of the under-developed countries. He viewed the Corps as complementary to present technical and capital assistance programs...
...exchange of tourists. But the immediate reason for stepping up the tourist inflow is the continued anxiety over the gold outflow. Last year the U.S.'s 2,000,000 tourists abroad spent $1,145,000,000 more than the 87,000 foreign visitors to the U.S., a "tourist gap" that accounted for nearly one-third of the U.S.'s total balance-of-payments deficit. Yet the U.S. allotted less money for travel promotion than either Cyprus or the Congo...