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Andrei Gromyko - The governments of the U.S.A., Great Britain and France have submitted for consideration by our conference a proposal in which many questions appear to be chained to each other . . . We are sure this plan was never designed to bring about agreement ... It stands to reason that this is a graphic manifestation of the technique of tying up problems of different nature in a single large tangle as a means of making their solution more difficult...
Having put literature in its secondary place, Khrushchev was inclined to appear forgiving to erring authors who were willing to be tamed. At the Third Soviet Writers Congress in Moscow, which he addressed last week, three authors who had been chided in the past (including Ilya Ehrenburg) were "rehabilitated" by the writers' union. The "bearers of revisionist opinions," proclaimed Khrushchev, "have suffered a complete fiasco," and it is now time for "other Soviet writers to help those who have committed errors and recognized them to rejoin the big family of authors. The angels of reconciliation are already flying...
...Even the commuters seem to be happy with their lot. There is, as yet, no definite program for next year's non-honors juniors, the Social Sciences have been handing out their usual paucity of Summas, and there are scattered courses in various departments one would like to see appear. But the most pressing question seems to be not, "What is wrong?," but "How can we have more...
...perhaps the era of good feeling is only temporary--new issues will appear before the faculty, administration, and students. Quincy House, for all its stolid efficiency, is only a building--not a symbol of a new IBM-dominated Harvard. Decisions as to who is to be admitted, how much he will pay, and how he can get the most from the College will always plague the community. The role of freshmen in the College has already been re-examined; next year admissions and possibly athletics will be studied. And no one has yet figured out a way to make...
Appreciating that an abundance of good food dulls the mind, he had confined his dinner to milk and cranberry salad. The only worry now was how best to spend the four hours before the library closed at ten. This was a greater problem than it might appear, for Lucius was a great believer in preventive medicine, and by now the material was all common knowledge...