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...exporter of oil, Iran, as a member of CENTO (formerly the Baghdad Pact,), is an essential link in the defensive tier along Russia's southern border. The U.S. has poured more than $800 million into Iran since World War II. By bringing Iran under its influence, Russia would knock out the last anti-Communist alliance in the vast area between Western Europe and the Far East, and would acquire a land bridge to the troubled Arab world. Should the Shah lose his fight for his dynasty and his nation, the Soviets would at last be free to dominate...
...while I was passing bills." His voice had an edge of bitterness in it, betraying his sense of grievance, his not-so-secret dislike for "young Jack," and his awareness that the dislike is mutual. (Kennedy had let it be known that, if elected President, he would try to knock Johnson off his majority leader perch...
...Adlai Stevenson came in for the hardest knock of the pre-convention brickbat-throwing when speechmaking New York Delegate (and former Democratic National Chairman) James A. Farley, in what was interpreted as a jab at Stevenson, hit at Democratic "appeasers" who wanted the U.S. to pursue a softer line in dealing with Russia...
...just as readily and are therefore worthless. One of the most ingenious ways to get around this has been devised by Dr. Robert D. Sullivan of Manhattan's VA Hospital and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. The problem is that it may take days of continuous treatment to knock out all the rapidly reproducing cancer cells. In that time, the drug will kill so many normal cells that the patient's life may be threatened. Why not, asked Dr. Sullivan, give the drug continuously by arterial drip, but switch off its damaging effects every few hours by injecting...
...when the campaign script calls for their special talents, there are the glamorous Kennedy sisters: tawny-haired Eunice Kennedy Shriver, 38; leggy Patricia Kennedy Lawford, 36, wife of the movie star; and Jean Kennedy Smith, 32, the slim, tanned baby sister of the family. Together and separately, the sisters knock on doors, preside over kaffeeklatsches, and shed their charm at political banquets, receptions and rallies. And finally, there is Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, 69, who willingly pitches in (sometimes in French, if the occasion calls for it) whenever her hard-running son needs...