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Some 40 college heads joined in a statement issued March 24, which asserted that "freedom of thought and speech is vital to the maintenance of the American system..."but which carefully noted that "'academic freedom' is not a shield for those who break...
...American people elected President Eisenhower to preserve the strength, the prosperity, and the freedom of America. That platform will be realized only if they give him a Democratic Congress in 1954 . . . We shall not permit the Republican Old Guard to use the President's prestige as a shield behind which they will tear down the liberty and prosperity our people have built. Nor do we believe that the President wants his prestige used for such a purpose...
...culture, and in his wake float evil, lobster-sized germs. At bottom, two suppliant hands show mankind's futile protest against the horrors of modern war. Standing alone is the Communist version of mankind's protector: a heroic Red peace partisan, with a peace dove shield. The other panel is Picasso's personal dream of peace, where anything is possible. Picasso's trees bear golden fruit, even small children can work a plow, and a benevolent sun wears a festive dress. There are birds in fish bowls suspended in the sky, fish in canary cages...
...robber. The city desk picked up the $51,000 robbery on the police radio, dispatched its own two-way radio cars to follow the robber and police. The minute-by-minute coverage included a notable picture of the cornered gunman trying to escape by using a woman as a shield...
Pronunciation: Dag (as in bag) Hammar-shiuld. His own advice to Americans: "Call me just Hammer-shield. That is, after all, about as near as most people get. Anyway, it's exactly what my name means...