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Educator Wriston, who stoutly denounced the "bullying of the intellectuals" during the white-hot heyday of McCarthyism, trained no fewer than five topnotch university presidents, including Harvard's Nathan Pusey and Wesleyan's Victor Butterfield. In his new book, Academic Procession (Columbia; $4), President-emeritus Wriston, now head of Columbia's American Assembly and the Council on Foreign Relations, pleads for a continuing faith in the ever-revolutionary ideals of U.S. democratic education. He also deplores some of the fancy new means that may be obscuring education's real ends. The fact that the word "curriculum...
...other star to testify was Admiral Arthur Radford, who retired in 1957 but came back recently as acting chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff while Air Force General Nathan Twining is recuperating from a lung cancer operation. Radford, 63, earns $12,000 a year as a director of the Philco Corp. (electronics), and about the same amount in retirement pay. The amount of influence exercised on Pentagon people, he said, "is very small-but I wouldn't say it doesn't exist." Besides, retired officers probably have less influence than most people think. "They are really...
When the smoke of accusation cleared last week, Justice Edgar Nathan Jr. gave Gloria fulltime control over the children, restricted Stoky to annual four-week visits with a fifty-fifty share of school holidays and weekends. But the judge did not let either parent go without administering a sharp slap. "It is a sad commentary," he wrote, "that an entire month of the court's time and energy has been devoted almost exclusively to the resolution of problems which mature, intelligent parents should be able to work out for themselves for the sake of their children...
Atop his other troubles, McElroy lost the services of two men whose expert knowledge has been great help. Lung cancer temporarily sidelined Joint Chiefs Chairman Nathan F. Twining, now convalescing from surgery. Shortly afterward, experienced, science-trained Deputy Defense Secretary Donald A. Quarles died of a heart attack...
Harvard students, said President Nathan Pusey in a baccalaureate address, should have "the ability to speak the word God without reserve or embarrassment.'' Some clues to what the unembarrassed Harvardman may have in mind were offered last week in a special supplement to the commencement edition of the Harvard Crimson, the results of an 82-question survey of Harvard and Radcliffe undergraduates. Notable items...