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...charter and the terms of the treaties with the beaten nations were the rules in the contest between Russia and the West, not the contest itself. That would be fought far from U.N.'s sober committee rooms. If anti-Communist Moslems and Hindus could not agree, Communism would gain in India (see FOREIGN NEWS). If the anti-Communist Chinese Government could get transportation going, Communism would be set back. If Communist parties and other projections of Moscow's will were able to hamstring non-Communist governments or to divide peoples, that would represent Russian gains just as surely...
Controlled Approach. In sober fact, CAA had done a creditable job with what it had. It had given top priority to what everyone agreed was the No. 1 problem-landing in soupy weather. That CAA still considered this a problem exasperated the Army, the Navy and the public. For the past year and a half the public had heard of the spectacular feats of the Army & Navy's G.C.A. (Ground Controlled Approach). It was relatively simple. The only equipment needed in the plane was an ordinary two-way radio. A radar unit on the field picked up the plane...
Byrnes's valedictory was a sober factual review of the progress of U.S. foreign relations in a year when U.S. policy-and the hopes of lasting peace itself-emerged from the shadows of confusions and doubts. Grave difficulties, he said, had arisen at the very outset of efforts to make a peace, "but we refused to abandon the principles for which our country stands. And we served notice that we would not retreat to a policy of isolation...
...least 60% of doctors do not treat alcoholics in any shape or form. ¶ Municipal hospitals, when they admit drunks, treat them with indifference, sober them up, try to get rid of them as quickly as possible (usually in less than 24 hours). Most private hospitals bar them...
...strangeness and the strain of the U.S. wartime alliance with Soviet Russia was guessed at by the U.S. public, but the public had only suspicions to go on. Now in a sober, fact-packed book, a man who knows a great deal about it, Major General John R. Deane, describes what was perhaps the most one-sided friendship in history...