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...explain how the individual may attain his freedom in contemporary U.S. society, Riesman has had to examine that society anew. The result is a "construction," a way of looking at the U.S. which is more presently fruitful than older conceptions such as the class struggle or the frontier v. the seaboard. At the very least, Riesman answers the anguished city editor who cried: "What we need around this place is a new set of cliches." No mantled prophet with the last word or the definitive system, Riesman describes his notion of character as "heuristic"-and that is the word...
...University of Texas and a onetime Rhodes Scholar, he came to Maryland after five years as president of Texas Western College (2,900 students). Well aware of Curly Byrd's "enviable contributions," he has no intention of plowing under the football team, concedes realistically that to attain distinction, a university needs endowment, and good football teams stimulate endowment giving. But in putting the accent on "distinction," he plans "a strong academic program," library expansion, and increased discussion of controversial subjects in the classroom. A Phi Beta Kappa himself, he also has a special goal: to raise Maryland...
Chicago Lawyer J. Ernest Wilkins, son of a Missouri Baptist preacher, is the only Negro ever to attain the title of assistant secretary in the Federal Government. He attained it last March, when President Eisenhower appointed him Assistant Secretary of Labor for International Affairs. Last week, with Secretary James Mitchell and Under Secretary Arthur Larson out of town on speechmaking trips, brainy Ernest Wilkins, 60, became the first Negro ever to attend a White House Cabinet meeting as the representative of a department...
...marked by chafing nationalism, Ramon Magsaysay unashamedly spoke of "the deep appreciation and gratitude for all that America has done during the last half-century to help us attain the high state of progress and security we enjoy," and "the pleasant and fruitful relationship" that exists today...
...that we have failed to stand our ground when we should stand, and are failing to build our strength while we still may have the time to build it ... God has given us the opportunity to defend [our] way of life through adequate military strength. The sooner we attain that strength, the sooner we can halt the present drift towards a helplessness which can only result in the loss of the free world...