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...American reporter played by Paul Kelly. This man rushes hell bent for leather through the plot infecting people with 100 percent Americanisms. His sentiments are admirable but I couldn't help wondering why he never got in trouble through his spouting them behind the Iron Curtain with such abandon. Every few minutes the Colonel's party line would prove embarrassingly illogical before the blasts of the reporter...
...whether the effort which is being made away from destruction is as great and compelling as the effort which impels us toward it," editorialized the Louisville Courier-Journal. Michigan's convalescing Senator Arthur Vandenberg proposed that the President formally notify the United Na tions that the U.S. would abandon the H-bomb project as soon as Russia agreed to a program of international control...
...time has come when the College should make a decision one way or the other on the question of intercollegiate athletics--either abandon them altogether, or give them enough importance so that the Harvard teams can compete on an equal basis with the teams which they have traditionally scheduled. Mr. Bingham can no longer hide behind the artifice of hiring and firing of coaches every couple of years. He is the athletic director, and with him lies the responsibility of organizing an athletic program which is workable, and of making a forthright statement to the student body and alumni...
...Nourse thought the Federal Government should recognize that bigness in itself is no evil. Said he: "Large-scale operations are essential to greater achievement and efficiency. The Government should accept business practices which . . . promote trade or facilitate maximum production. It should virtually abandon the attack on bigness as such...
...doesn't tell the whole story. Acheson's assistants themselves state that Emmanuel was "found in-admissable under our laws." Although Emmanuel was never formally refused a visa, he almost certainly would have been unless the State Department's strategy was to stall him until he was forced to abandon voluntarily his U.S. trip...