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...diminish America's gain to know that others benefitted as well, nor does it subtract from the end result to know that the impetus came from a desire to 'promote the well-being of mankind throughout the world.' " ¶ That the foundations have an "internationalist" bias. "We find it puzzling to be called upon to defend what seems to us to be so obvious, that American scholarship should encompass other cultures and that educated Americans should know something about the world in which they live." ¶ That the foundations have placed too much emphasis on "empirical" studies...
...American Newspaper Guild protested the discharge, contending that Polumbaum should be judged on whether his copy had shown bias, not on his nonjournalistic activities. But it agreed to let an arbitrator, appointed by the American Arbitration Association, decide. Last week, after deliberating for two months, Arbitrator George Spiegelberg, a Manhattan trial lawyer, upheld the discharge, though he thought that U.P.'s specific reasons for the firing had not been proved. Nevertheless, Spiegelberg held that "The fact that the customers of U.P. would or might believe that U.P. retained a biased reporter . . . gave U.P. just and sufficient cause for discharging...
...committee recognized what it called certain "extraordinary facts" in the case, including "a prior adjudication favorable to Mr. Glasser of the subject matter as to which he invoked the Fifth Amendment, a continuing harassment on the same charges over a 12-year period,... indication of bias and pre-judgment on the part of the House committee." But the group found Glasser "unnecessarily militant," accused him of lack of concern for the University's interest, and called his actions "incompatible with the trustees' policy...
Another college recently deciding to end its fraternity discrimination was Dartmouth, whose student body voted last March to end social club membership bias...
...matters to resume. This alternative, however expedient, is only a shortcut to distortion. By denying either side full freedom to present its case, the Committee would give the public an incomplete picture of the controversy. Equally important, it would give either side an excuse to pin a label of bias on the Committee's final report...