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Five years ago, none doubted the U.S. strength. Now doubts are everywhere. No neighborhood saloon lacks a master strate gist in can prove that the U.S. is helpless against the Reds in Korea or Indo-China, or Iran, or France. Such calamity-howling Clausewitzes are twice as thick in the Senate as in the saloons, twice as thick in the State Department as in the Senate, and twice as thick in the Pentagon as in the State Department...
...stand on football as follows: "We realize that football is important but still don't want a so-called 'big-time' team; but we do want a so-called 'big-time' team; but we do want a team as good as Yale and Princeton." This theme echoes the gist of several football policy statements made recently by Provost Buck...
Practical Matters. The gist of the Ives draft was in the newspapers before Republican strategists decided what to do about it. Then Bob Taft and the policy committee whistled for a halt. They smothered Ives's resolution, set him to work with such wily oldtimers (and Acheson enemies) as Nebraska's Kenneth Wherry and Colorado's Eugene Millikin to work out a more diplomatic draft...
Until the Houses were opened, in 1930 and '31, there had been virtually no change in parietal rules for 20 years. The gist of the rules was that "no young woman, unattended by an older woman, should be received in a student's room," and only with the permission of the proctor during the evening. This applied to all dormitories, and to the rooming houses where the College maintained proctors...
...German general's hat should be on a British officer's head is pretty much the gist of III Met by Moonlight. For as the staff car, driven by Author Moss, moved along the road in northern Crete, sentries at no less than 22 German traffic-control posts smartly saluted the behatted "general"' and waved the car on. They had no inkling that prostrate on the floor in the back seat lay the real general, with guns pointed at his head. Twenty days later, on May 16, 1944, kidnaped Major General Karl Kreipe was handed over...