Word: week
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...business. The President had made it bitingly clear (TIME, Jan. 2) that this was the time and the hour finally to weld a coherent foreign-policy program for Asia. It fell to grey, soldierly Omar Bradley to report, in grey, soldierly words, the J.C.S. decision of the preceding week to stiffen the defense of Formosa, Nationalist China's island stronghold, with a small U.S. military mission. As General Bradley droned on, he knew he was outlining a Pentagon reversal of the State Department's flaccid policy of waiting for something to turn up in Asia. No professional...
...81st Congress came back to Capitol Hill this week with politics on its mind and blood in its eye. At stake this year was more than the unfinished business on the Fair Deal agenda. With 36 Senators and the entire 435-member House facing the voters again next November, the prize was control of the 82nd Congress and a long head start toward the White House...
Arriving early in Washington last week, Nebraska's Floor Leader Kenneth Wherry put the rumblings into words. From now on, Wherry announced, he would refuse to be bound by the decisions made by "bipartisan bigwigs." He proposed that all new foreign commitments be hauled down to the floor of the Senate for a full-dress brawl-a proposal which the Christian Science Monitor denounced as an attempt to "Wherrymander" U.S. foreign policy...
After a three week lay-off, the freshman basketball team goes across the river tomorrow night aiming for its fourth win in five starts. Northeastern's unpredictable freshman five will provide the opposition at 6:30 p.m. in the YMCA gymnasium on Huntington Avenue...
...anticipate too much trouble with Penn," Ulen said last night. I'm more concerned with the Army meet, which I think will be our first big test of the season. They beat us last year but I think we have a good chance to reverse the outcome next week...