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...touring garden clubs, Dumbarton Oaks is a "must." To more politicallyminded Washingtonians it is the site of the 1945 post-war financial conference, which laid the groundwork for subsequent United States international monetary policies. To students of Byzantine lore, however, Harvard's center is the nucleus of American activity in their field...
Although the physicists' stand is weak, its courage may untimately produce helpful political results. Their sane concern for German citizens has furnished a cautious groundwork for the inevitable trend towards nuclear weapons in Germany and throughout NATO. Assuming that they will eventually agree to military work, the scientists should be given an opportunity to express doubt over future dangerous policies. Instead of being rushed too quickly into bomb research projects, the eighteen may now be given opportunity to continue work on hydrogen fusion at laboratory-induced temperatures--a promising German discovery in the peacetime nuclear field. Their protest has again...
...Kubitschek had already made clear in his New Year's message to the people, the first year of his five-year development plan had to be spent mainly in the unspectacular business of laying the groundwork. Nevertheless, 1956 did produce unexpected progress. Almost as though he could hardly believe Brazil's good fortune, Kubitschek reported that...
...group creativity that joins a lot of brains into assault on a single problem or concept. The brainstormers-two professors, an inventor, a hospital director and Cartoonist Al Capp-also laid down some amusing spoofs, e.g., a Chinese friend comforts Arthur in a miserable boyhood moment, thus laying the groundwork for his presidential veto of the Chinese Exclusion...
Even in the absence of Shaath's testimony, however, no one in Beirut had any doubt as to who was behind Jedid's murder. In the two years since he fled to Beirut as a political refugee, Ghassan Jedid, fanatic antiCommunist, had spent his time laying the groundwork for a revolt against the Communist-infiltrated clique which Colonel Abdel Hamid Serraj (TIME, Jan. 14) has led to power in Syria. Shortly after Jedid's arrival in Lebanon a Syrian court sentenced him to death in absentia for his alleged complicity in the assassination of a Serraj colleague...