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...Justice Vinson, Harry Truman's close friend and confidant, to build a case for the seizure. He took an hour to read his 44-page opinion in a voice that was often raised with emotion and occasionally heavy with sarcasm. Vinson flicked the majority for its "messenger-boy concept" of the President's relationship with Congress, and echoed most of the Government's own argument (TIME, May 5) that an emergency had forced the seizure...
...conducive to arbitrary rule than the military junta. It would be a tragic development indeed if this generation was forced to look to the rigidity of military dominance and discipline to redeem it from the tragic failure of a civilian administration. It might well destroy our historic and wise concept which holds to the supremacy of the civil power...
...rationale behind the "graph for all occasions" is quite simple. In recent years it has become almost a truism that a graph is one of the easiest ways to explain a difficult economic or social concept, probably far better than a thousand word essay on the subject. And at the same time, no one, least of all a professor, likes to admit that he doesn't understand a graph, the simplest way to explain anything. The net result of it all is that the "graph for all occasions," embellished with Greek letters and surrounded by a scholarly essay, permits...
Last week, in The Netherlands, Maria Montessori's own fight came to an end. She had helped to revolutionize a whole generation's concept of primary education, but at 81, she had no intention of stopping there. Her last words were directed to her adopted son Mario, who has gradually taken over her work: "What are you planning for the reform of the world...
...this, the JCS members were finally willing to jettison the old dollar-for-dollar concept of balanced forces; they approved $22 billion of the 1953 Defense Department budget for the Air Force, as compared with the Navy's $13 billion and the Army's $14 billion. By implication-if not by -affirmation-the U.S. had come a long way toward accepting a doctrine most impressively stated by Winston Churchill at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in March 1949. "For good or ill," said he, "air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power, and fleets and armies, however...