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...whole nation-was summed up last week by the Ford Foundation's President Henry T. Heald, onetime (1952-56) chancellor of New York University, in an angry speech before New York City's United Parents Associations. "What happens in the nation's largest city makes its impact throughout the country. Educational neglect means aggravation of the conditions leading to irresponsibility and lawlessness among our youth, an increasing economic burden for social welfare, the perpetuation of islands of squalor amidst shining centers of commerce and culture. And what is most tragic of all, it means that the potential...
Eliott added that "I have become convinced that the face that Harvard presents in the summer to the nation and to the world is one of the most interesting aspects of the University's total impact on the cultural life of our times...
...lacks a certain cleanness of impact, a certain soundness of effect. It pounds too hard at times, and stretches things out too long. And for all its speeches and screams, it does not deeply plumb its moral issue or its chief actors, particularly the key figure of the judge advocate (for which George C. Scott, however brilliant, seems miscast). And by mixing dialectics with histrionics to pose a moral inquiry, The Andersonville Trial disconcertingly forfeits much of the realistic and psychological fascination of a trial. About it all there is too much sense of external pressure, of the author...
...because the merged El Paso-Pacific Northwest combine faces new competition in the California market from the Transwestern Pipeline Co., recently authorized to build a $192 million pipeline into the state, and also from a proposed Pacific Gas Transmission Co., which would bring in additional gas from Canada. Any impact on trade by eliminating Pacific Northwest as a competitor, said the commission, is overshadowed by the benefits conferred by the merger. Among these are the fact that Pacific Northwest's lines will enable El Paso to link up its San Juan Basin, Permian Basin and Panhandle Field with important...
Eyewitness to History: (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). With Walter Cronkite acting as M.C., the network news staff will report on the main events of 1959. Their biggest feature story: the impact of "traveling diplomacy" on international relations...