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...major speech on defense was delivered last week by Secretary of Defense Charles Erwin Wilson before 1,200 members and guests of the Los Angeles World Affairs Council. Implicit in what he said was the fact that, under Old Soldier Dwight Eisenhower, the U.S. is steadily building a more powerful and more efficient defense force. But the steak Charlie Wilson served was cold. Said one member of the World Affairs Council: "It was a well-organized speech." Sighed another: "It certainly was dull too." Rudimentary political considerations would have dictated that Eisenhower, not Wilson, make the defense-budget speech...
...that the admission price is both unfair and insulting to the Radcliffe freshmen. It is gross exploitation for the Key to make money on the poise, charm, and dancing ability of the girls who are the attraction for solvent Harvards. But this exploitation is nothing compared to the insult implicit in assessing at fifty cents an introduction to the girls possessing these gentle qualities. They would be cheap at twice the price...
...their names, perfumed with intimate association and Old Noble Treble Crown Whiskey! There were Pat Lynch's Place, The Old Magnolia, The Smokery. Gentry & Crittenden's, and the Howling Wilderness, a premises which never at any hour of the 24 betrayed the promise of commotional doings implicit in its name...
...from the artful Chou Enlai. who has a talent for making minimal requests of countries he cannot order around. The only request the Communists make of the French, for instance, is not to rearm Germany; they ask the Indians only to be in favor of "Asia for the Asians." Implicit in these small and easy commitments is all that the Communists presently want of France and India: to stand aside. Too often U.S. requests to young and sensitive nations, or to old and proud nations, have been crowded with demands and pledges that have significance only in domestic American politics...
Luckily, the charge of selling out to New Haven doesn't crop up very often, but for a certain type of alumnus this treachery may be implicit in even the most routine act on the Bulletin's part. Last March, for example, when the magazine had just adopted a new cover comprised of a little less crimson and a little more white than the previous design, it received the following letter from a subscriber...