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...Dean Acheson was not far from the mark when he observed, speaking of the six months when Harvard was recently without a President, "We at New Haven have, of course, followed closely the recent meetings, at Cambridge when that most touchy of maneuvers--the transmission of power in a dictatorship--was accomplished...
...making major decisions in department, however, the chairman has just one voice and often not the loudest one. On a question like appointments to the faculty, a vote of the department determines who will be nominated for a permanent post. Though it may appear that the "dictatorship" which Acheson spoke of becomes, in this situation, an oligarchy, the Administration keeps a firm hand on the appointment of men to the Faculty...
Nixon blamed one of the Eisenhower Administration's most pressing problems on the Democrats: "There would be no crisis in Indo-China today if the Truman-Acheson foreign policy had not lost China to the Communists." Illustrating that the Republicans and boardinghouse chickens do not have a monopoly on wings. Nixon pointed out that one wing of the Democratic Party shouts for civil rights while another blocks action. Said he: "The Republican Administration has done more for civil rights in 17 months than the Democratic Party did in 17 years...
Sage Bertrand Russell celebrated his 82nd birthday by bringing out his second volume of short stories, Nightmares of Eminent Persons. Among the bad dreams that Russell dreamed up were nocturnal horrors suffered by Dwight Eisenhower, Joseph Stalin and former Secretary of State Dean Acheson...
...would like to compliment you on the May 3 issue of TIME, in which you featured Earth Mover Harry Morrison . . . It is my opinion that Harry Morrison and other American builders of this type are doing more to build good will with our foreign neighbors than the Marshall-Acheson-Dulles combined team has ever done or ever will...