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...Council's actin shows an increasing awareness on the part of the students to the wider community in which they dwell, it shows a consideration on the fact that there are other college besides Harvard and that Harvard can work with other schools on problems of general concern...
This is not to say that anti-histaminics have been proved worthless, but the council wants proof of their value to be shown by wider and far more searching studies, than any yet undertaken. And the council is still worried about harmful side effects (e.g., drowsiness, dizziness, damage to bone marrow, reduction of white blood cells) reported to follow the use of some anti-histaminics in certain cases...
...first issue, The New Yorker promised "to be gay, humorous, satirical, but to be more than a jester . . ." It also announced firmly that it was not intended "for the old lady in Dubuque." More than a jester, today's New Yorker eyes far wider horizons than Manhattan's skylines. It travels with its "farflung correspondents" all the way from Third Avenue's saloons to Hiroshima, considers life and letters, as well as laughter, its province. Two-thirds of its 325,000 circulation is outside New York; it has 69 subscribers in Dubuque. Harold Ross, founder, editor...
...University Hall has said that committee chairmen often come to discuss problems without knowing just what they want to find out--in short they are not clear on just what their job is. Not only could this kind of situation be prevented, but the committee could be given a wider scope for its won discretion, if the charge were quite clear...
...United States, in my judgment," said Acheson, "acts in regard to a foreign nation strictly in regard to American interests or those wider interests which affect American interests ... I am not in the slightest bit worried at all because somebody can say, 'Well, you said so and so about Greece, why isn't all this true about China?' I will be polite. I will be patient and I will try to explain why Greece is not China, but my heart will not be in that battle...