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John Foster Dulles-a man of great moral courage who has brought strength into the State Department and, even more, has shed a new light on the whole concept of statesmanship...
...industry can keep rolling and the NATO area remain viable. Most hopeful prospect: the Administration is planning to channel most Western Hemisphere oil through the 17-nation Organization for European Economic Cooperation. Thus, while handling the short-term emergency, the U.S. is helping to advance the long-term concept of an economically integrated Western Europe...
...This concept of the "roving professor" originated more than 20 years ago with President Conant. He first mentioned his views in the President's Report for 1933-34--his second annual presidential report. Writing about "methods of counteracting the centrifugal forces which tend to separate our faculties into an ever-in-creasing number of sub-divisions," he claimed that the University should "emphasize those programs of teaching and research which cut across the conventional boundaries...
Today, however, there are eight endowed chairs for university professors--three of them vacant at this moment. And the whole concept has proved so successful that just last summer President Pusey announced two new professorships--the Ford and Lowell chairs--to fulfill the same purpose as the university professorships on the college level...
...interview yesterday, Leach, who is a Brigadier General in the USAFR, further developed the concept of eliminating the separate services and uniting them under a single chief of staff and in a single uniform. Leach sees this single Armed Force as being divided into functional forces...