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Taking them in order the first thing on the docket is the NCAA conference out in Dallas. There were two noticeable outgrowths of this meeting, the abolishment of the sanity code and the ruling against television. The decisions are already history, but for a fuller explanation we dropped over to the H.A.A. offices the other day to gather the report of Harvard's representative, the honorable William J. Bingham...
...Well, Mr. Bingham, it looks like they've finally gotten rid of the sanity code," we said...
...Stassen it appears, is seeking some form of a liberalized sanity code. This is a pretty cloudy concept and the Ivy group directors would be grateful for a more thorough explanation. We hate to think that Mr. Stassen is using a college, and a college football team for furthering his personal ambitions. "Please the people no matter what they want," is an idea which is prone to exaggerated action...
Pearson promptly retorted that he had been assured by the Pentagon that no security was involved in the messages, and that, anyhow, he had changed enough words and dates to protect the code...
...satisfied, McCarthy fired off a list of questions to Army Secretary Frank Pace. Was it enough, as Pearson claimed it was, to change a few words to protect the U.S. code? Had the Pentagon cleared the messages for publication, and if not, how had Pearson gotten them? Pace replied that the messages were classified material, and that the Army had not approved them for publication. But for technical reasons, Pace wrote, "cryptographic security has not been violated." Nevertheless, the Army had started a special investigation to find out how Pearson got the messages (six days before McCarthy had raised...