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Most important was grave, bespectacled Karl Schirdewan, generally considered Ulbricht's prospective heir as Communist boss of East Germany. When Ulbricht visited Moscow last year, Schirdewan sat in for him as First Secretary. Schirdewan was charged with "advocating a safety-valve policy akin to that applied in Hungary and Poland." In an indictment that was also an unconscious admission, a Politburo spokesman explained: "Had we followed [Schirdewan's] opinions, very probably we would have had to suppress a counterrevolution with use of arms...
...missiles, secret suspicions that the Navy has been spending too much money on spectacular aircraft-carrier plans, too little on undersea and antisubmarine warfare. High on the committee's list of possible recommendations: a change of the Pentagon's present Joint Chiefs of Staff system to something akin to a Defense Department planning staff recommended by Dr. Vannevar Bush, wartime director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development. The committee's strong suspicion: the time has long passed when such major decisions on service spending as aircraft carriers v. antisubmarine warfare can be kept...
...concept of a Regional Studies concentration is an intellectually justifiable one, even for the undergraduate. A comprehensive study of one culture is certainly as demanding as any traditional academic discipline. Regional Studies is closely akin to cultural geography, a subject that is becoming increasingly appreciated in America. At present, the closest an undergraduate can come to a Regional Studies concentration is that of History and Literature. This program has at least two disadvantages for the person primarily interested in one region: first, the Department stresses history and literature in contrast to the more eclectic approach of Regional Studies, and second...
...matter for wonder that a granddaughter of the Confederacy should have latched onto a radical like Upton. In this wonder lies the secret of the book's charm. She never seems to realize that the romanticism of early Socialism and that of the Old South were akin. However different the windmills they were tilting at, both Mary and Upton were American romantics. Besides, most social reformers are dedicated snobs (Upton himself, claiming kinship with the Duchess of Windsor, wrote a series of articles about her folks...
...little older intellectually. In order to feel really different he must forget what he was like but a year before. When a classmate discovers that the truth is not always in the Bible, or that the devil did not invent Communism, the Exonian's feelings are akin to those of an older brother explaining that babies do not come from storks...