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...hold that there is no course--especially in the social sciences--which does not reflect a political bias. In most instances, this bias is masked (usually unintentionally), but not removed, through the introduction of uncritically accepted assumptions...
...informing viewers that Chet Huntley had substantial cattle interests when he went on the air to criticize tough new federal rules on meat inspection. In another peremptory communication, the commission asked the three major networks-NBC, CBS and ABC-to respond within 20 days to "hundreds of complaints" of "bias" in their coverage of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago...
Last week Federal Reserve Board Chairman William McChesney Martin, using an analogy of which he is fond, likened the economy to an automobile that has merely cut its speed from 90 m.p.h. to 70-still much too fast for safety. "Business at present has a strong inflationary bias," Martin said. If prices keep on shooting up at their 4½%-a-year rate, he added, the Reserve Board may even feel forced to return to a tighter money policy. Commerce Secretary C. R. Smith warned that unchecked inflation could "reduce us to a second-class trading power" by pricing...
...delegate strength by preventing hundreds of Humphrey supporters from being seated and to set the stage for dramatic floor fights this week. His challenges to the Washington, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Texas, Michigan and Indiana units were rejected. Though the Mississippi delegation was left unseated on the ground of racial bias and replaced by a half-white, half-black group, the decision hardly amounted to a McCarthy victory. Humphrey also supported the insurgents...
...Falls might have added the cultural factor. He had the advantage of sound family background and a college-graduate mother. Admission tests are written with a white, middle-class bias, complains Dr. Hiawatha Harris, a black Los Angeles psychiatrist. He cites a young Negro candidate who went through two-thirds of the questions before he came to a subject that he knew anything about. That was science. The other questions were cultural, covering (among other things) yachting jargon and French expressionist painting. "Medical schools have been judging black applicants on an equal basis with whites in an effort...