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...plane at London Airport, he was whisked off to dinner at No. 10 Downing Street. Over the brandy, Prime Minister Churchill launched into the subject now dearest to his stout old heart: a "parley at the summit." But Dulles was expecting the lecture, and came determined to withstand it. In the words of one dinner guest, Dulles "flatly rejected" the P.M.'s proposal...
...river Charles were suddenly to flood all of Cambridge, there would be only one building fully prepared to withstand the raging waters. Below decks in Vanserg Hall, the NROTC has accumulated an historical and practical collection of Naval what-nots. Sextants, compasses, and half hitches stand beside depth charges and three-inch guns. Guiding me through this seaworthy maze was Lieutenant R. H. Curtin, NROTC gunnery instructor...
...home team's weak defense was unable to withstand the scoring attempts by Yardlings Henry Holmes, Harry Wexler, Bill Parker, Geoff Chalmers, "Red" Murphy, and Jim Polese, each of whom added a goal to Robertson's starter to bring the final Crimson total up to seven...
...spur atom-bomb protection for key industries, the Government will soon allow companies tax writeoffs on 100% of the cost of building bomb shelters and shoring up plant structures to withstand atom bombing. Slated for the first certificate: Cincinnati Milling Machine Co., biggest U.S. machine-tool builder...
...word dissection of their writing that is the editorial process of the reviews, it will evoke belly-laughs. The nature of the subject matter and the form of analysis do not easily lend themselves as sounding boards for Marxist propaganda. And perversion of cases and legal doctrine could scarcely withstand the careful scrutiny of the editorial purgatory. Furthermore, it would seem to us that a truly Marxist approach would require challenges to Angle-American jurisprudence that would be painfully obvious. Were such anathema to evade the editors, it would scarcely pass unnoticed by the august subscribers of the Harvard...