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...student body. But the policy of the Athletic Association has made the secondary purpose that primary one. It has distinguished between major and minor sports, on the basis of outside popularity rather than that of participant contribution. This emphasis upon the spectator contradicts the College's overall policy, implicit in its intramural program, that if sport not for sport's sake, it is at least for the benefit of its participants...
Pusey cited essayist Richard Hofstadter's concern with the implicit assumption that "education ought to pay its own way" as an instrument rather than a goal. "As the function of education becomes increasingly circumscribed, the danger in this assumption grows," Pusey said...
What the President and the Secretary of State said about the islands had been implicit in American policy. But when it was coupled with what they said last week on another phase of the same subject, the result was a psychological explosion heard around the world. The explosive question first came up at Secretary Dulles' news conference. A reporter wanted to know whether a cease-fire would be a "desirable thing in that situation between the Chinese Nationalists and the Chinese Communists in the Formosa Straits...
Intercontinental missiles will hasten the day of deadlock already implicit in intercontinental airplanes with hydrogen bombs. For several years, the U.S., complacent of its ability to stay ahead of Russia in all things technological, has been daintily fingering missile projects...
...members of the committee, drafted by Leader Knowland, started their task with the implicit understanding that Knowland would stand behind them and would help protect them against the inevitable attacks from McCarthy...