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...with the overall authority in the process of reaching the consensus is the managing editor, who reads every line before it is set in type. The editor-in-chief, constantly in close touch, does not try to impose his will from the top, but engages in the process of reaching the consensus. Putting it somewhat wryly, he said on that Columbia lecture platform: "I will confess that there are times when I think people ought to pay more attention to what I say. I just don't seem to be able to give orders effectively. But everybody is very...
...Chief Luce, "that every journalist who works for us feels more individual freedom and responsibility because he knows basically where we stand. He knows where he agrees or disagrees. He is free to do his own job in our organization, knowing that all are working, in a broad consensus of conviction, for definable goals...
...merely "a series of individual faculty entrepreneurs held together by a common grievance over parking." Where ancient academies had a single soul, "the multiversity has several-some of them quite good, although there is much debate on which souls really deserve salvation." In form, it is a remarkable consensus of historic patterns-British-oriented undergraduate life, German-modeled graduate studies, American-style service to the state, all of it kept "as confused as possible for the preservation of the whole uneasy balance...
Hughes, of course, was also dazzled by the prospect of Eisenhower in the White House leading a government of National Union, and perhaps rebuilding both the national consensus and the Republican Party. No matter how severely he finally judges Eisenhower's performance, Hughes never disowns his early belief that Eisenhower was potentially the peace-mak-he appeared to be, and that a real hope was interred with his Administration's bones...
...Defense. Fulbright had stated in the beginning of his speech the reason why he felt Atlantic defense cooperation to be essential. He returned to the subject to assert that worry over control of nuclear arms was far less important than the development of a "solid consensus on nuclear strategy. "He said that unified strategy planning was "politically feasible," and could be achieved with only a small modification of the NATO Council...