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...extra watches and sounded fog warnings. The Swedes insist that the ships were steaming port-to-port, with ample room to pass; the Italians counter flatly that they were starboard-to-starboard, and that Stockholm veered to a collision course even as Carstens-Johannsen thought he was widening the gap...
...raise 500,000 troops by 1960. The difference between the U.S. Radford plan and Adenauer's plan for West Germany is a crucial one-West Germany, treaty-bound not to manufacture atomic weapons, has no nuclear firepower to substitute for manpower. As if belatedly noticing this big gap in his new line. Chancellor Adenauer last week also began suggesting that it was time for West Germany to have atomic arms. First the Chancellor startled Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak by asking his help in winning West Germany permission from the Western European Union to arm the Bundeswehr with...
...rugged Big Ten football can be. Peaks runs with a brace on one knee; a leather wristlet, nearly as heavy as a Roman boxer's cestus, supports the thick right wrist of Sophomore Jerry McFarland, a Negro tackle out of Alabama. Tackle Pat Burke lisps through the gap where most of his front teeth once stood...
...subcommittee called on no top school administrators to defend integration, asked none of the testifying teachers to suggest improvements. If the hearings demonstrated anything in their dreary recitation of well-known facts, it was simply that Negroes have suffered educationally and culturally in comparison with whites, and that the gap must be closed before they can compete on equal terms in the schools...
...last year spent only $28.5 million for Japanese goods, while the U.S. imported $450 million worth. Japan's answer, argues wily Ishibashi, is to win "alleviation or removal" of the free world's restrictions on strategic trade with Red China so that Japan can close its trade gap by selling the Communists ships, railroad equipment, generators, steel products, cranes and bulldozers...