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Another item of consensus was hatred of the proposed common building between Eliot and Bertram, which would jut out into the quadrangle. "Intrusive and unnecessary," was one verdict, and there was no one to speak for it. "I hate the Commons building," one girl said simply...
Efficiency with Service. The whole idea sounded Utopian, and in another time would not even have been discussed. But the rapid growth of world business and the increasing sensitivity of businessmen to their place in society have created strong new currents. The remarkable consensus of last week's congress was that the old attitude of "business is business" has withered. With social awareness growing, today's businessmen must cope with new moral and human dimensions. "Why can't you think less about profit and more about people?" challenged Sverre Walter Rostoft, president of the Federation of Norwegian...
Obviously, no Negro can speak for all. No organization can represent all Negro aspirations. But in the late summer of 1963, as the revolution intensifies, if there is one Negro who can lay claim to the position of spokesman and worker for a Negro consensus, it is a slender, stoop-shouldered, sickly, dedicated, rebellious man named Roy Wilkins...
Still, what if the Soviets suddenly abrogated the treaty and started testings without attempt at concealment? McNamara, again, was reassuring: "The consensus is that the Soviets could not in a single series of tests, however carefully planned, achieve a significant or permanent lead in the strategic field, much less a 'superweapon' capable of neutralizing our deterrent force." More important, McNamara promised that the U.S. would maintain "the vitality of our weapons laboratories" and "the administrative and logistic capabilities required to conduct a test series in any environment...
...persisted that somehow Ward had been made a scapegoat, and that his case and the public's reaction to it carry a disturbing message about British law and morals. Nothing could be more revered, solemn and self-righteous than the British judiciary, but there is now a growing consensus that the Ward case has put in question its vaunted independence from politics...