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There was a case to be made against the Administration's Far Eastern policy, but its Republican critics failed woefully to make it. G.O.P. Senators on the committee were seriously divided among themselves on Far Eastern policy, and could not even be gotten together to plan a coordinated attack. The Republican policy committee hastily sent over two men to think up questions and feed them to Maine's Owen Brewster. They were not enough. The plain fact was that, after years of criticizing U.S. China policy, Republicans had apparently not bothered to prepare for their biggest...
...Gotten to the stage where it can talk confidently of mass-producing vastly improved atomic bombs, building a hydrogen bomb, tactical atomic warheads for artillery and guided missiles, and atomic engines that would "reduce almost to the vanishing point the dependence of naval vessels and military aircraft on bases of fuel supply...
...street from U.S. Army Intelligence headquarters in Salzburg, and prepared for a long siege. Colonel Alexander Smirnov, the burly chief of the mission, announced moodily that he could not leave until he received orders from Russian headquarters in Vienna. As far as personal relations were concerned, the Russians had gotten along fine in Salzburg - particularly Senior Lieut. Vasily Pivovarov, who had acquired quite a reputation among U.S. Army officers because he always breakfasted on six eggs, four sausages, one raw cucumber, eight slices of bread and a glass of vodka...
...bitter row at Florida's little Rollins College had gotten to the point where emotion on both sides had hardened into righteous indignation, and the original facts were buried under pride & prejudice. To a vocal majority, deposed President Paul Wagner, the young whirlwind who came triumphantly on the scene two years ago, was now the self-seeking villain of the piece who had richly earned his comeuppance. To a dwindling minority who still supported Wagner, he was the scapegoat in a situation he had worsened but not made. On orders from an economy-minded board of trustees, Wagner...
...Crimson's smooth-working first string catcher, Charlie Walsh, who suffered a broken hand in the Columbia game a month ago, has gotten well faster than expected and may be ready to go behind the plate against the Eagles. While Chuck Wade has been substituting effectively for Walsh Harvard has won four out of its last six contests (record now six and six) since the loss of one of its better players...