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...Faculty member raised the question of National Science Foundation money, which requires an affidavit and oath but which the University accepts because it is a direct government to student program; and NDEA money which Harvard refuses because the University must administer the oath and affidavit and provide one-tenth of the funds...
...government, enforcing an official, safe norm of belief. Although it has been suggested that Harvard accept NDEA money and provide separate scholarship funds for those students who refuse to sign the affidavit, this suggestion begs the moral question. In an NDEA loan, the University would provide one-tenth of the money and would have to administer the disclaimer affidavit. Harvard's own funds would thus be placed under government restrictions, and the University would be in the impossible moral position of administering an affidavit it did not believe...
...Waste. Nobody swings for the fence with more abandon than husky (6 ft., 200 Ibs.) Roger Maris: more than one-third of his hits are homers. Slow rounding into shape last spring, Maris did not hit his first home run until the Yankees' tenth game. But then he began hitting them in bunches: nine in 13 games in May, 15 in June. When he reached 50 on Aug. 22-with 38 games still to play-Maris became the biggest news in baseball. New York tabloids offered cash prizes for predictions of which days Maris would hit a homer...
...this age of electronic marvels, everyone is familiar with the way television, the daily newspapers, and newsmagazines such as TIME can quickly round up the impact of an important news event on capitals round the world. This week's special cover on Khrushchev (his tenth appearance on TIME'S cover since 1953), and our related stories on nuclear testing, are distillations of thousands of words filed from Washington, London, Berlin, Moscow, Paris, Belgrade, Delhi and elsewhere...
...people. Ranging down in power, the U.S. has a large group of small tactical nuclear weapons for use in light rockets, artillery shells, torpedoes, antisubmarine depth charges, air-to-air missiles, etc. The warhead of the air-to-air Genie, which is carried by interceptor planes, yields one-tenth kiloton (100 tons). The state of the stockpile of these weapons is secret, but no U.S. authority can be found who does not believe that the U.S. is far ahead of the Russians in both quantity and quality of nuclear explosives. It is agreed, also, that both countries have more than...