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...present crisis, the islands had become a symbol of the principle that, in an orderly world, an aggressor cannot be allowed to assert territorial claims by force. That principle the U.S. was properly committed to defend-with a vigor that many of its allies could be grateful for but were too pusillanimous to join. An agreement on the islands' neutralization would be bitter tea for Chiang Kaishek, but it might also be the only way to remove what Dwight Eisenhower called "the thorn in the side of peace...
...game. When maternal and paternal chromosomes are slightly different, which is generally the case, their dominant genes (units of heredity) suppress recessive genes, as Mendel's red-flowered peas suppressed white-floweredness. Each recessive gene is still riding its chromosome, and biding its time in obscurity. It can assert itself only when the corresponding gene from the other parent is also recessive. It may have to wait for many generations (in the case of humans, for hundreds of years) before it gets its innings. Then, free of suppression by a dominant gene, it produces a white-flowered plant...
...rival tribesmen took up arms to help fight the rebel Druses. The government, growing bolder, made so many arrests that movie houses had to be commandeered for auxiliary jails. Some 12,000 Syrians were transported to the border and dumped into Syria. But the Chamoun government, still unable to assert authority in many places, had yet to round up any opposition leaders, and some observers began to say that the crisis might just peter out in victory for nobody, but at the cost of at least 150 lives...
...remedy these implications, to define the meaning of some of the honors provisions, and to assert the value of House tutorial groups, the Faculty must amend the legislation on which it will vote today. Even if the meeting must last beyond the civilized six o'clock adjournment hour, these provisions should be made...
...Throughout its history," the Corporation explained, "Harvard has felt obligated to provide a place of Christian worship for members of the University community. In continuing to do so, the University does not intend to assert the validity of the tenets of any denomination or creed...