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...heroes, and they lay the Whole Truth on the line: Stalin's real name was Dzhugashvili; Russian farmers are short of fertilizer; the per capita income of the U.S.S.R. is only $310 a year; and the Soviet Union (despite what many people think) actually seeks to undermine the status quo...
...spirit" and practical lab work in U.S. schools; their own universities have no campus life and few professors who answer questions. Middle Easterners thirst for the technical training that their own classical universities lack, and praise the pragmatic way of American life because it "refuses to accept the status quo...
Improved Box Score. Inevitably, most of John Kennedy's new judges will be deserving Democrats. The Administration, for obvious political reasons, turned down an A.B.A. appeal to preserve the bipartisan status quo of the present bench division (157 Democrats. 159 Republicans). The trend toward bench Democracy has already caused some agitation. Boston legal circles complain that the Attorney General has been toying with the nomination of Municipal Judge Francis Morrissey to a new Massachusetts district judgeship. A gladhanding Democratic politician, Morrissey has had little trial experience as a lawyer, but he is a longtime friend of Joe Kennedy...
Both sides were firmly committed to established positions, and the question remained which, if either, would have to give way. The U.S. was looking around for prospects that would entail no surrendering but might, as one U.S. diplomat put it, "buy us a continuation of the status quo." Thanks to the U.S.'s obvious determination, its rapidly build ing military strength and its united will, President John Kennedy and his negotiators could undertake the talks with more face cards in their hands...
...talks on Berlin could do no more than permit tensions to dissolve - and preserve the status quo. "Ideally," said one presidential adviser, "what we are seeking is a talky, do-nothing conference...