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However, the atmosphere of university study serves to damp predictions of disaster or heaven-on-earth, the President said. A scholar has the luxury to weigh events and suspend judgment. "It might not be far wrong to say that throughout the University the major portion of the efforts of the student is directed to studying problems or situations, not with the purpose of learning the 'right' answer, but with the avowed intent of evoking a critical attitude and stimulating imaginative thought...
...past two years the U.S. and a majority of the nations on the U.N. Atomic Energy Commission have held that international control of the atom is both necessary and feasible. When Russian opposition made it plain that agreement was not possible, the A.E.G. reported that fact and voted to suspend its own activities (TIME...
...Order to Suspend. CAB, which has let the wildcats pretty much alone, knows that the flying public likes bargain fares. It also knows that popular opinion favors competition. But CAB's mandate is to develop "a stable air transport system," and CAB knows that where the scheduled lines have to make their regular flights full or empty, and maintain many a money-losing run for "public necessity," the irregulars wait for full planeloads and raid only heavy-money runs...
That was why CAB last week ordered Wildcatter Weiss to suspend all operations, declared it would register no additional wildcat lines, ordered an investigation into all wildcat "practices and activities." Weiss, whose airline faces a death sentence if the CAB order sticks, went into court, and got a ten-day stay of execution. Without blocking a metaphor, he argued that the airlines were angry because wildcatters had "pulled the ground out from under them," added that he was "not going to be shouted out of business by [an] octopus...
...Tell your nephew not to allow politics to interfere with his duty to the people, so I won't have to suspend...