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...future, Dwight Eisenhower had decided that he was going to write, to talk, and to work for his ideas of government. As he bade godspeed to his friends of the White House years, he also served notice that they would be seeing him in the future: "Believe me, I'm going to be heard from...
...general, the nation's newspapers bade Ike a fond and sentimental farewell. "Dwight Eisenhower retires with the affection, respect and confidence of the nation and much of the world," said the Dallas Morning News. "No other man in universal history amassed so much influence or power at one time without taking the one more step: assumption of an imperial diadem or the trappings of dictatorship ... It behooves [President Kennedy] to remember, as we think he does, that neither the U.S. nor the rest of the world is through with Dwight Eisenhower." In Los Angeles, the Republican Times called...
...were saved by the U.S. Army's capture of Heidelberg. Though he tends to view Christianity less in orthodox terms than as a body of myth and symbols, Jaspers is a member of the Evangelical Church, and in 1946, in his book The Question of German Guilt, he bade Germans cross-examine their consciences on the war-guilt issue. Outspokenly independent, he inflamed many Germans last summer by calling the reunification of Germany "politically unrealistic and irrelevant...
...authors of the Texas constitution wrote a Texas-tall order: they bade the state legislature to set up nothing less than "a university of the first class." The University of Texas (24,993 students) has yet to fill the order, but under Chancellor Logan Wilson it has come closer than at any time in its 77 years. Now Wilson, 53, is turning over the rest of the job to one of the liveliest experimenters in U.S. education, new Chancellor-elect Harry Huntt Ransom...
...there is anything left of this consensus, thinks Father Murray, it is not the doing of U.S. philosophers, most of whom are positivists-whose strictly limited truths must be capable of scientific proof-or pragmatists-whose truths are whatever works. Says Murray: "The American university long since bade a quiet goodbye to the whole notion of an American consensus, as implying that there are truths that we hold in common, and a natural law that makes known to all of us the structure of the moral universe in such wise that all of us are bound...