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...matters of civil rights, racial and religious discrimination, the University has always supposed that its posture is one of unquestioned morality. When issues of bias have arisen they have been summarily dismissed as the consequences of misunderstanding, never concerns of intent, neglect, or a lack of diligence in the pursuit of ideals which are presumably Harvard...
...case against the University is not so much a suspicion of racial bias as a failure to make it clear that Harvard is enthusiastically committed to the cradication of ethnic discrimination and the institution of social equality. In the recent dispute between the Harvard Club of Dallas and the Debate Council, there was never an official condemnation of the alumni position and, in fact, the first of the University's sentiments was "the Dallas Club has a right to its opinion." That this opinion, for all public purposes, had virtually become the policy of the University, was apparently no matter
...newspaper-hungry New Yorker, I deplore the strike as much as anyone. And I would hesitate to accuse TIME of any bias in its coverage of the "disgraceful strike," where the "intransigence" of Bertram Powers has "caused the breakdown of negotiations...
...Congress a lardy budget showing a deficit of $11.9 billion, thereby repelling members of Congress and plain citizens who are reluctant to see the deficit enlarged by tax reduction. The President's tax package itself has alienated a lot of potential support because it is flawed by political bias, provides relatively little net relief for middle-income taxpayers. As for the U.S. business community, it is getting bullish about the future whether there is a tax cut or not (see U.S. BUSINESS...
...weakest article in the entire issue is Richard B. Stone '63's discussion of the Taft-Eisenhower fight for delegates in Louisiana in 1952. Stone, who attended the 1960 GOP convention as an honorary Sergeant-at-Arms, brings his objectivity into question by a display of apparent pro-Eisenhower bias in the opening paragraphs. Without explanation, he declares that Taft was an "ultraconservative isolationist" and that "Many believe that Taft could never have beaten Stevenson, and that he was exclusively the candidate of rock-ribbed Republicans...