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...pleas to Congress, had achieved its purpose. Van vowed to keep his arguments "in channels" and in the secret councils of the Joint Chiefs. This did not prevent him from making broad public hints of the problem uppermost in his mind-how to break the paralyzing balance-of-forces concept, which parceled out equal funds to all three forces, without regard to missions or requirements...
...Hindu University of Benares, for example, a former Harvard man heads a society for foreign students. Newspapers in foreign countries often run stories of the Center's activities, also. The extension of international hospitality is rather gratifying to an organization which works to give real meaning to the vague concept of international "understanding"--convinced that shyness, prejudice and ignorance, not fundamental differences, keep people, apart...
Pine: Is it your concept of Government . . . that the Constitution limits Congress, and it limits the Judiciary but does not limit the Executive...
...What. In more serious vein, Stevenson had another point to make: "Perhaps it isn't exactly the thing to say to a partisan meeting, but who wins this fall is less important than what wins-what ideas, what concept of the world of tomorrow, what quality of perception, leadership and courage...
Censorship has had many excuses, but the ones used most often usually have something to do with the protection of some dogma--everything from. The Faith to The American Way of Life. It is disappointing therefore to find that what was once a flexible concept, tolerance, has joined the censor's list of sacrosanct doctrines. We have no quibble with advocating tolerance, a trait which many Americans lack, but lately groups like the NAACP have shorn it of much of its richest meaning. Time was when tolerance meant permitting anyone to sample whatever was thrust before him, providing that this...