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...with an expression of full confidence. In either case, Dulles, who has enough prestige with Congress to defend his department as Acheson could not, must not let political pressure replace diplomatic competence in the Foreign Service. By showing up the Department's confidence in itself he can help it regain the confidence of the public...
Sales Goal. G.M.'s splashy show was latest proof that 1953 is going to see autodom's hottest competition since before the war. In that race, G.M. is determined to regain the 46% of the total U.S. market it once had. In a decade the percentage has slipped to 41% largely because of postwar metal allocations based on a period including G.M.'s 1946 strike. Acting President Harlow H. Curtice predicted that G.M. will boost its sales from 1952's $7.5 billion to a new record of $9 billion or more this year. With able selling...
...Shih compared the Nationalist struggle to regain the mainland with France's struggle to free herself of the Nazis in World War II. But he counseled patience as well as perseverance. "The deliverance of France," he said, "took place not only through the individual efforts of loyal Frenchmen . . . but because a free France had become an integral part of global strategy . . . We know that half a million [Nationalist] soldiers are not enough to retake the mainland. Our future is linked with that of the free world, which must one of these days answer the question whether it is going...
...blue pockets in their shining sides. The caves that surround the Neapolitan gulf fell into a profounder shade, each giving forth from the darkness its chiming or its booming sound. Triumph had passed from Greece and wisdom from Egypt, but with the coming on of night they seemed to regain their lost honors, and the land that was soon to be called Holy prepared in the dark its wonderful burden...
...more reprieve from the fate that comes with maddening regularity to all who try to govern modern France. The slimness of the majority was a portent of crises to come. It was another sign of the malaise of confusion and instability which dogs France's every effort to regain greatness...