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...with members of the Commerce Department's Business Advisory Board, and listened to a briefing on North Atlantic Treaty Organization problems by his old friend and aide, General Alfred Gruenther. Ike added a new meeting to his schedule: for the first time he attended a session of the "sub-cabinet," made up of the deputies and assistants to Cabinet members...
...Other sub-heads report "what love can do" (cure colds and stop wars) and "how we can become loving" (through suffering, friendship, or example...
...American Association Association of University Professors sub-committee yesterday commended Harvard and four other colleges for supporting faculty members accused of Communist affiliations...
...history of this recurrent American dream is unrolled with an unerring sense for drawing every last bit of humor from the situation. There are a few sub-happenings, like Blandings' professional struggle--he has to invent a new slogan for Wham Ham, Inc. There is also his wife's old but incipient romance with their old lawyer friend Bill Cole. But most of the action plods around the single spectre of Blandings getting fleeced...
...political speeches with quips like: "The Republicans have been in office for twenty months--or long enough to elect Maine's first Democratic governor in twenty years." There is also Mr. Stevenson's less famous but equally impressive facility with the serious metaphor, which allows him to describe the sub-standard, depressed areas of the American economy as "stagnant pools into which the tide of prosperity has failed to flow...