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...Belgrade's White Palace, Communist Tito, resplendent in a scarlet & gold-braided marshal's uniform of grey gabardine, talked for nearly four hours to 125 correspondents. Gist of his remarks...
Self-Examining. The highlight is the Tuesday lecture given by Ai Szu-chi. Sometimes he is there in person; at other times he is heard on records. These lectures, the only ones given at the university, last as a rule from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. The gist of Ai's "philosophy" is contained in a book of his called Historical Materialism, which has become the virtual Bible of hsueh hsi. (Sample excerpts: "Communism is the exquisite acme of man's social evolution . . . The capitalistic world is being pushed into the grave step by step...
This was the gist of President Conant's remarks at the chapel service in Memorial Church on Tuesday. In reaffirming Harvard's tradition of religious toleration and non-denominationalism, Conant was defending Harvard from certain critics who "condemn all secular education as godless and immoral...
...dollars. He charged that a new U.S. program for land reform, introduced last week at ECOSOC, threatened the peace, and he denounced MacArthur's land reform in Japan. ECOSOC nevertheless overwhelmingly adopted the U.S. program, which will be offered as guide and model to underdeveloped nations. Its gist: 1) as many medium, family-sized holdings as possible; 2) breakup of too large or amalgamation of too small holdings, not to fit doctrinaire slogans but to insure maximum efficient production...
...came, there was much pomp and celebration, probably more to the pleasure of the students than of the President, for "an oration in Latin" by an undergraduate was followed immediately by an address in Latin by President Kirkland, and Andrew must have had a time of it following the gist of things...