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...McCarran Act's super-sensitive requirements for political purity might as well not try, for the convention or conference they wish to attend is usually long since over by the time they have waded through this long-winded procedure. Only those whose purpose in the United States does not depend on more or less precise timing find this ordeal worthwhile, and they, like the others, have little chance of succeeding anyway...
...spirit so blatantly in the chessplayers' case has shown itself particularly aware of McCarran's folly. Apparently, however, this simple truth has not yet percolated down to the silver miners and sheep herders, to the Wisconsin farmers, or to the others on whom the likes of McCarran depend. Eisenhower, can hardly wait the many years this will take, though, for revision is already sixteen months overdue. Rather than anger everyone further by ludicrous exceptions, he and his legislative captains should make an immediate effort for comprehensive revision...
Chances for a Crimson upset, however, depend in great measure on defensive play...
...nation's most parsimonious trustee boards. This includes adjustments in the permanent tenure system, which is not wholly rigid, and in the number of promotions and new men allowed each department. Words can do little justice to the tension and delicacy of this job. Men's careers depend upon it, the Faculty's morale depends upon it. The educational and financial health of Harvard depends upon it. That the overwhelming majority of the Faculty, as well as the Corporation, have trusted Provost Buck in these matters and have been outspokenly grateful for his excellent handling of them bespeaks his ability...
Bishop Dibelius . . . has seen clearly that Communism is a new religion, and that its spread will depend on its ability to overcome the existing religions . . . [He] realizes that the only way Christianity can prove its superiority will consist in its ability to oppose Communism by means of an organized religious fellowship...