Word: thinks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Murray's view. Said Taylor Trumbo, managing editor of the Los Angeles Times: "Our main objection to such a service is that it would cut down on the personal planting of news releases. We are visited by any number of planters, and we get to know those we think are reliable and those we might have to check further on." On that principle, the Times refused to let Transmit install its machine...
Last week President Eisenhower confronted the growing controversy at his press conference in Washington. Said Ike: "I personally am ready each morning to take an oath that I am not a Communist and that I am loyal to the United States. I think, however, that when we begin to single out any group of citizens and say, 'This is a matter of legal compulsion,' I can see why they are resentful...
...taking advantage of the loan provisions that the Federal Government set up." But the President also put his full weight behind a possible compromise at the next session of Congress: repeal of the disclaimer affidavit, retention of the oath of allegiance. "For my part," said Ike firmly, "I should think that the loyalty oath, the basic citizenship oath, is sufficient...
...Think at Home. Starting at Harvard, where psychologists tested them on their prejudices (and will test them when they return), Jaeger's 22 protégés have swept westward since September on one tourist flight after another. Each carries 44 lbs. of baggage, a dwindling $300 in pocket money. Behind them: Boston, New York, Washington, San Francisco, Honolulu, Tokyo. Ahead: Bangkok, Calcutta, New Delhi, Cairo (midyear exams), Istanbul, Athens, Rome, Florence, Geneva, Berlin, Paris, London (final exams). So far only one student has been lost; he missed the plane in Baltimore, caught up next...
...goals of American education should match those of the Russians. Not so, warned Faust. The aims of Communist education are unquestioning obedience and technological specialization in the service of the state. The vastly different American ideal focuses on "the development of each individual's capacity to think for himself. We are convinced that every individual is entitled to discover or rediscover the truth for himself and that only as he makes the effort to do so can he really grasp it, truly understand it, and make it a part of himself...