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...NATO nations into a new regional association under the U.N. Charter, roughly similar to the Western Hemisphere's Organization of American States, equipped to deal with such common political problems as Cyprus and the Saar. The net effect will be to advance President Eisenhower's long-term concept of European unity. First step will be the drafting of a statement of common aims and purposes acceptable to all NATO members...
...payments to farmers who agree to take crop lands out of production and place the acreage under soil-building cover crops or trees. The soil bank, said Ike, will "check current additions to our price-depressing, market-destroying surplus stocks of farm products. It is a concept rich with promise for improving our agricultural situation...
...Stalin originated the concept 'enemy of the people.' This term automatically rendered it unnecessary that the ideological errors of a man or men engaged in a controversy be proved; this term made possible the usage of the most cruel repression, violating all norms of revolutionary legality, against anyone who in any way disagreed with Stalin, against those who were only suspected of hostile intent, against those who had bad reputations. This concept, 'enemy of the people,' actually eliminated the possibility of any kind of ideological fight or the making of one's views known...
...School was made up of college graduates. In 1936 half of its students has their Bachelor of Arts degree, and although the last two year man was admitted in 1950, today only 75 per cent of the student body is made up of college graduates. The newness of the concept of dental study on the graduate plan thus becomes apparent...
Died. Dr. Gordon Keith Chalmers, 52, president since 1937 of Ohio's small (500 students), distinguished Kenyon College; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Hyannis, Mass. Founded in 1824 as a training ground for clergymen, Kenyon later became a seat of liberal education, a concept warmly embraced by Rhodes Scholar Chalmers, who took as his lifelong challenge the "gigantic inquiry taken from the Old Testament: 'What is man that Thou art mindful...