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Ideally, the College could certainly perform a service to the nation by increasing its enrollment and at the same time maintaining high standards. But the current state of American education is far from ideal. Indeed, the troubles that confront colleges and universities in the country are such that for at least the next several years--barring the endowment miracle mentioned yesterday--Harvard can make its most valuable contribution to the nation only by putting aside any thought of immediate expansion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard and the Nation | 11/12/1955 | See Source »

...this was insufficient answer to the Communist tactic of nibbling with conventional arms at the free world's boundaries. Said Ridgway: "In view of the free world's appreciable manpower superiority over the Communist bloc ... it is my view that the free world has ample resources to confront the Soviet bloc enemy in whatever form of aggression the Soviets choose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: The Long Haul | 7/25/1955 | See Source »

...They confront some appalling facts. Most of the human race cannot read or write. Each year, 300 million suffer from malaria. The world's population is increasing by 100,000 a day, but of its 900 million children, two-thirds are underfed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: World On Trial | 6/27/1955 | See Source »

...promise of secrecy if they want it; the person under investigation does not necessarily know who said what about him. In 1951 the Supreme Court split 4 to 4 when asked to rule that the Government could not dismiss an employee for security reasons unless it allowed him to confront the persons who had given information about him on which the Government based its decision. This spring the issue again reached the highest court (TIME, May 2), in the case of Yale's Professor of Medicine John Punnett Peters, who was discharged as a part-time consultant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SUPREME COURT: Ducking the Issue | 6/20/1955 | See Source »

...Peters' lawyer, Thurman Arnold, built his arguments on the Fifth Amendment. He said that since Dr. Peters could not confront his informers, he had been denied the right to "due process of law" guaranteed in the Fifth Amendment. The Government answered that it has a need and a right to protect its informants; if it did not do so, the whole security system would break down. It also contended that its firing procedures are administrative acts, not judicial proceedings with legal penalties, and therefore not subject to the due process clause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SUPREME COURT: Ducking the Issue | 6/20/1955 | See Source »

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