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...students in the section are similarly delighted. "The professors--they're all Jewish, they're all slightly liberal, some more than others, and some people object to the liberal bent," says one student in the section. Chayes is sympathetic. "We're not a balanced ticket," he says. "If we'd been teaching regular courses we would have been scattered among the four sections...
Richard N. Ostling's article on the sixth assembly of the World Council of Churches in Vancouver, B.C. [Aug. 22], sized up the situation exactly. I attended, and it was good to see the W.C.C.'s decidedly anticapitalist bent exposed with the use of solid facts...
...looks as though the Soviets may be bent on turning the Year of the Missile into a replay of the Cuban missile crisis, at least in its symbolic dimension, as a clash of wills between the superpowers. While this does not necessarily mean a return to the brink of nuclear war, it certainly does not augur well for an agreement that would secure the nuclear peace, nor for a summit at which such an agreement might be signed. -By Strobe Talbott
...more hired hands to maintain rising output. Says Richard Peterson, senior vice president of Continental Illinois National Bank in Chicago: "Businesses found themselves having to call workers back into the plant sooner than they thought they would to build up inventories depleted by fantastic sales." In the opinion of Bent Hansen, chairman of the economics department at the University of California's Berkeley campus, employment is belatedly catching up to increases in production that were registered in March and April...
...wonders what might have happened to Houseman had the Great Depression not ejected him from his merchant princedom in the grain-trading business. No doubt he would have become rich. Then, given his artistic bent, he would certainly have involved himself in the theater, probably as one of those opinionated amateurs, an intrusive, indispensable backer of the exasperating kind he describes at several points in his story Certainly Houseman could have played such a role with ease. But if he had, who would have played Houseman...