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...comparable to Vandenberg's in the Senate. Foreign affairs have been his specialty ever since he started in public affairs in 1915, and recently he has risen to prominence as leader of the Congressional Food Committee in 1946 and Director of the Committee on Foreign Aid which laid the groundwork for Marshall Plan...
...must convince three men by the names of Stone, Hickey, and Glynn that this pre-season rating is not merely idle talk. Don Stone played first-string center last fall when Chuck Glynn hurt his hand. He was particularly effective on defense. A Senior, he got his football groundwork at Roxbury Memorial High...
Football is like any other production: the curtain doesn't go up before a lot of preliminary groundwork. The above action sequence, taken by CRIMSON photographers Pete Mazur and Jack Levy during last spring's practice, shows Art Valpey's squad learning the ABC's the newly-installed Michigan single wing...
...there was a course, Chemistry 46, which covered such chemical theory and procedure as a pre-media should know, but which unfortunately was not accepted for honors credit in Biochemical Sciences. Something similar to it is being offered this summer, and if continued might very well serve as a groundwork for the gradual building up of Biochemical Sciences into a fine, well-organized preparation for medical practice and research...
...weeks ago Pleven had laid the groundwork for his deal. He told De Gaulle that though the R.P.F. would probably come to power, after a series of parliamentary crises, the Communists might meanwhile start a violent insurrection. "What is necessary," said Pleven, "is to organize a painless transition. You should make some friendly gesture toward those leaders of the present regime for whom you have personal respect...