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...fine print of almost every contract between the U.S. Government and a private business, these words appear: "The contractor agrees not to discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, creed, color or national origin." Last week Dwight Eisenhower by executive order established a 15-man Government Contract Committee designed to give these fine-sounding words practical effect...
...Paris, after seeing Rousseau's house, they discussed his Discourse on the Origin of Inequality Among Men. In London, where they were scheduled to see the Old Vic perform Hamlet, they found that the Old Vic had just closed for the month. They "did" Hamlet anyway in their hotel, and somewhere along the line squeezed in Canterbury Cathedral and a lecture on Chaucer. Finally, last week, they groggily got ready to come home. What had they learned? "Tell you the truth," said one traveler, "you get so that you see everything in half a daze...
...Eliminate special marking requirements (e.g., the rule that every imported knife must have etched or die-sunk into it the name of the manufacturer or importer, and the country of origin...
...Soviet Union's all-embracing police system had its origin about 35 years ago as an extraordinary emergency commission, called the Cheka, to combat sabotage and counter-revolutionary activities, In the civil war it became a kind of battle gendarmerie empowered to execute Whites and waverers in the Red army. With the end of the civil war, the Cheka switched its attention back to civil affairs, but it never loosed its hold on the army. The system of commissars and political instructors, which extends down through the army command to company level, is Chekist, and popularly called so, though...
...issue of the Nation warns: "It is a mistake . . . to keep the spotlight focused on McCarthy; this is what he wants his opposition to do." In the New York Post, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., co-chairman of Americans for Democratic Action, tried to deflate the myth at the point of origin. Wrote Schlesinger: "The record shows . . . that the notion of McCarthy's invincibility is largely legendary. He certainly cannot be credited with the defeat of seven Senators . . . McCarthy conducted a vigorous campaign against Tydings in 1950. But the strong probability is that Tydings would have been beaten anyway . . . The Connecticut...