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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...skies' proposal-a proposal which was rejected out of hand by the Soviet Union. It is in relation to the danger of surprise attack that planes of the type of the unarmed civilian U-2 aircraft have made flights along the frontiers of the free world for the past four years...
...massive higher-education master plan to guide and control expansion of the 15 state-supported colleges and the University of California, whose combined enrollment (presently 200,000) has quadrupled in the past 15 years, is due to double in the next 15. Calling for a billion dollars' worth of building over the next ten years, the plan creates a 21-member state college board to control appointments, salaries, etc., in the state colleges, a separate system supplementing the eight-campus University of California...
...arrived in Korea in March, just four days before the national elections. He spent two days in bed with an upset stomach, on election day went to Panmunjom to watch a routine armistice meeting. But Lucas nonetheless filed on the election. He found it "less violent than in the past," dismissed charges of widespread election frauds as the transparent alibi of the defeated South Korean Democratic Party, which he claimed had been aided in its deceit by "segments of the American press" (other U.S. correspondents in Korea, persuaded that the elections had been rigged, promptly banded together in a "Segment...
Primus Inter Pares. Today the Group's destinies are controlled by Loudon and six other managing directors, who seem for all the world like members of an exclusive club - and so consider themselves. Of a far different stripe than the rough and ready tycoons of the past, they are subdued, cautious, and vastly competent in the modern committee manner. All had to pass one prime admission test: they must have compatibility as well as ability. The man who raises his voice or loses his temper is frowned on, the lone wolf considered a troublemaker. This collective leadership, says...
...convincing, any reader will be impressed by Author Fifield's rendering of the trancelike intensity with which the countess' conscious mind pearl-dives into her unconscious. Author Fifield speculates intriguingly on religious and metaphysical questions. Does the ability to foretell a future event presuppose predestination? Are times past, present and future coeval? These questions are more fully developed than the novel's characters, who seem to exist like cards in a deck, merely to take plot tricks...