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...internal use only,⅓ Pusey of Harvard for faith concept, ⅓ Nevins of Columbia for history concept and ⅓Fairless of Pittsburgh for intestinal fortitude concept. If taken regularly by nation, it will quickly counteract present epidemic of opportunism, chauvinism, greed, self-interest, hypocrisy and larceny...
Both Secretary Wilson and Admiral Arthur W. Radford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, conceded that their new look delivered last week was only a quick look, and a temporary one. Obviously, the armed forces must soon be altered drastically, to fit a changing concept of war and the changed military situation of the U.S. The Chiefs cannot do this on their own authority. Switching armaments is expensive in the short run, even though an armed force redesigned to fight atomic wars may not turn out to be more expensive than the one the U.S. has now. (Example: while...
...free schools were soon superseded by a city system dedicated to education for all. But generations of illiterates lived and died before this idealistic concept was even close to fulfillment. During periods in the1800s, the city tripled its population every generation. In uptown areas "splendid squares and streets are opening on every side," but amid the slums of Five Points thousands of "wretched outcasts" slept in ragged piles amid "a rubbish of bones and dirt," and "swarms of . . . barefooted, unbreeched little tatterdemalions" ran the muddy lanes like animals. As late as 1890, thousands of children of Jewish and Bohemian immigrants...
...River, was a dreary wasteland of filthy, overcrowded brick-and-stone tenements. Today dozens of blocks of them have been torn out and in their places stand two big, modern apartment projects whose high sunbathed and lawn-bordered buildings have given their Negro tenants a bright new standard and concept of living. Seventy-five percent of P.S. 133's Negro pupils (95% of its enrollment) come from the two big projects-25% are from one jammed block of dreary "old-law tenements." It is difficult to distinguish between the two groups...
...forges now Communists operate. Of course they will behave. They will shins. For their stated purpose, spread across innumerable public record is to infiltrate group..." It is interesting to not now easy you slip from the vague term "Communist dominated" to "Communist" I had though that the concept that what matters is "Communist ideas" was reserved for Senator McCarthy...