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Says the preface to Blueprint for Health, with a nod to rundown slum areas: "This community has in it the seeds of contagion, contamination, human misery and criminal neglect . . . But it also has in it sources of power great enough to protect us all against the consequences of mass-living...
...forward to a positive Republican policy, the plank pledged: "We shall encourage and aid the development of collective security forces there [in Western Europe] as elsewhere, so as to end the Soviet power to intimidate directly or by satellites . . . In the balanced consideration of our problems, we shall end neglect of the Far East, which Stalin has long identified as the road to victory over the West . . .* We shall support the United Nations . . . We shall not try to buy good will. We shall earn it by sound, constructive, self-respecting policies and actions...
...also fatal, continued the general, to neglect Asia for Europe. "One would be foolhardy indeed to quench a fire in the kitchen while leaving another room aflame . . ." MacArthur belabored another pet Democratic policy: "The Administration is obsessed by the idea that we can spend ourselves into a position of leadership abroad, just as it believes we can spend ourselves into prosperity at home . . . Both are based upon illusory premises . . . World leadership can only rest upon world respect. Such respect is one of those spiritual ideals . . . influenced solely by the soundness of ... our own civilization...
...side of the Reformation which modern Protestantism tends to neglect is the overarching sense of vocation, the Calvinist and Lutheran drive to participate in the whole of this actual world and to bring all of it under the judgment of God...What we imagine to be the Protestant tradition, the Puritan would disown as a flight from responsible exercise of power or influence...
...teachers, undergraduates raised a hue and cry about the University's policy of "publish or perish." A Student Council investigation placed the blame on the University's over-emphasis on publishing as a requirement for permanent tenure. At an alumni meeting H. V. Kaltenborn '10, attacked Conant for his "neglect of the social sciences...