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...spectator to watch his principal prey under fire, amiably introduced himself when he encountered Acheson in a Senate elevator. "I'm Joe McCarthy," he announced. "I'm Dean Acheson," replied the Secretary, and the two shook hands and had their pictures taken. Later, McCarthy could not resist a sly dig. "Neither of us turned his back on the other," he told reporters. More characteristic was Wisconsin's senior Senator Alexander Wiley, another sharp critic of Acheson, who greeted him jovially with: "Well, Mr. Secretary, you are looking young and handsome this morning...
...amounts of military equipment to that government. . . It is not that they lack rifles or ammunition ... or that they cannot purchase what they need . . . The trouble lies elsewhere, and it is not the function of the U.S. nor will it or can it attempt to furnish a will to resist and a purpose for resistance to those who must provide for themselves...
Yale men are apparently unable to resist the lure of the quick buck: author last year removed 30 slot machines from dormitory hiding places...
...Concept. Massachusetts' Leverett Saltonstall wondered just what present U.S. policy in Korea was. He quoted a speech by Assistant Secretary of State Dean Rusk which said that the U.S. was trying to resist aggression and yet prevent a general war. What did the general think...
...Emotional Orgy." Except in the competitive cities of New York, Washington and St. Louis, "the best newspapers in America are those which do not have a newspaper competing with them," said Cowles. Noncompetitive newspapers don't have to scramble hard for circulation, thus "are better able to resist the constant pressure to oversensationalize the news [and] the pressure of immediacy, which makes for incomplete, shoddy and premature reporting . . ." In general, noncompetitive dailies "have a deeper feeling of responsibility because they are alone in their field...