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...first is the record of the 80th congress. He pointed out that this is the congress which launched the Marshall plan, and the Greek-Turkish aid program and laid the groundwork for NATO...
...French Reds, who went to Russia in 1950 to recuperate from a stroke. Thorez felt at home in Russia: a deserter from the French army, he had spent the war years there while his underground comrades in France risked their lives fighting the Nazis (and laying the groundwork for the Reds' postwar power). Marty and Tillon resented Comrade Thorez's absentee leadership. Marty called Thorez and his wife, Jeannette Vermeersch, "resisters from Moscow." At a meeting of the French politburo, Tillon spoke bitterly of comrades who did not fight in the Resistance, but operated by remote control from...
...their difficulties; they planned it this way, they said. The Ike campaign will "peak" just at election time. They don't want to throw the big punches too soon. What needs doing now is being done. In the most important states, Eisenhower-Nixon organizations have already completed the groundwork for local campaigning, and have done it with remarkably little friction between volunteers and Republican regulars (a friction that plagued G.O.P. Candidate Wendell Willkie...
...least four years, Tennessee's able Representative Albert Gore has had his eye on the seat of the oldest U.S. Senator (in years of service), doddering, dozing Kenneth D. McKellar. From 1950 on, Gore carefully laid the groundwork by commuting to Tennessee almost every week for "nonpolitical" speeches. After McKellar had announced he would seek a seventh term in the Senate (which no man has ever had), Gore made his own pointed announcement: "I raise but one principal issue: Who is best fitted to serve the state and nation in the U.S. Senate for the next six years...
...Adler sees it, the Summa Dialectica must go beyond his Syntopicon of the 102 Great Ideas (TIME, March 17). The Syntopicon merely laid the. groundwork by furnishing a key to the great books of the past. The Dialectica must attempt to treat the great issues (God, Man, Nature, History, Knowledge, Being, etc.) in relation to the present. Each topic may take many years. But eventually, Adler hopes, a great conversation will have begun. It will be a conversation that may never have an end, but if all goes according to plan, men will finally learn at least what the talk...