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...independence of mind by wearing their three-button suits, the old boys did not hesitate to bite the hand that had fed them knowledge. "A Harvard professor." proclaimed Ohio's Representative John Ashbrook ('52), "is an egghead who thinks the American eagle needs two left wings." The consensus was best expressed by New York's Senator Kenneth Keating (LL.B. '23 ): "It's about time it is known that Harvard turns out enlightened men as well as Democrats...
...underdeveloped area." Contributing little toward correcting such backwardness was Soviet Delegate Victor Chkhikhvadze, vice president of the Law Institute of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, who seized the occasion to plug Moscow's proposals for total uninspected disarmament. Nevertheless, there was unanimous approval of the conference's consensus report, which urged the acceptance of international law by the world community, agreement by all nations of compulsory jurisdiction by the International Court of Justice,- and establishment of an expanded world court system to include regional and specialized tribunals...
Such a council would not involve any new federal power, nor the loss of any power by local and state boards of education; but it could help build a national consensus on educational goals and standards...
Each week East holds a "school meeting"-to settle behavioral problems. Typical debate: Was East right to blast a lad whose banging around at night woke him up? Consensus: No. In keeping with school spirit was the problem of children who kept hurtling about the house on bicycles, alarming pedestrians. When the practice was voted down, one nine-year-old refused to accept the decision. But he did compromise: he now rides only two days a week, which East regards as splendid evidence of personality development...
...fall-out from atmospheric tests, but that tens of thousands would probably die as a consequence of the increased leukemia, bone cancer, genetic abnormalities and other maladies. Such deaths would constitute a minor addition to those now cause by background radiation, but there appears to be a fair consensus among American cancer ticists and others which can be summarized that for every ten fission yield of tests (which be more than ten megatons of power) an estimated 100,00 sons now living would have the shortened and another 100,000 yet to be born would be . Much of the evidence...