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...engage in secret work, Bundy said, some authority must choose between its faculty members. The university itself cannot be that authority lest it be driven to differentiate in a "divisive and invidious fashion." When the government places part of the institution under surveillance, its standards are not akin to those of the faculty, he said...
...London, General Spears sat alone with Prime Minister Churchill, a "heavy hunched figure in black." At this moment on June 10, 1940, Italy had entered World War II. Churchill began to speak, and "for the first and only time in my experience." writes General Spears, "I heard words akin to despair pass his lips...
...Braque drawings will have an eerie dimension. Braque attempts to break the barriers of a dead language and recapture the almost childlike age when giants. Titans and nymphs shared the world with mortals and Olympian gods. The attempt, in the words of one French critic, becomes something akin to "adventurous voyages in the half-shadows of the irrational...
...There is need for economic policies which will help to develop all underdeveloped countries. In the Communist countries developments are achieved through a system of forced labor akin to slavery. Living standards are kept very low and the people are forced to work very hard. In this way, railroads, power projects, industrial plants and other capital developments are created. It is a cruel system. But it has substantially raised material production in the Soviet Union. And even though this is particularly for war purposes, the result does have a certain fascination for the peoples of underdeveloped countries who feel that...
...offered $250,000 in college scholarships. But the school's guidance counselor was disgusted: "We didn't need a single dollar." Why had so much been offered to such a well-to-do few? The fact is, says President John Perkins of the University of Delaware, "something akin to a scholarship racket has evolved." In their blind competition for promising freshmen, many colleges and universities are unwittingly giving aid to students well able to pay their...