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...Manhattan, the men of the U.N.Security Council listened gravely as Egypt demanded satisfaction for the "brutal aggression" in Israel's attack on Gaza, in which 38 Egyptians were killed. Israel's Abba Eban retorted that his country was prepared to bind itself to "an assurance that if no hostile act is carried out by Egypt against Israel, then no hostile act of any kind will be carried out by Israel against Egypt...
...lunch lasted two hours. Chiang, pointing out the difficulty of maintaining morale on Formosa in the face of retreat from the islands, asked for a specific commitment on Quemoy and the Matsus. Dulles refused; the treaty, he said, does not bind the U.S. to defend the islands. Are there any conditions under which the U.S. would defend them? asked Chiang. Possibly, replied Dulles. If President Eisenhower were to conclude that the islands are essential to the defense of Formosa and the Pescadores, then they might be defended. Chiang was bitterly disappointed and did not bother to see Dulles...
Since the war, the Housemasters each year have applied a few more bandages to the ailing House admissions program. Although they usually manage to bind up some of the more obvious wounds, they always fail to cure the underlying malady. Every spring, therefore, Housemasters face the same old problem in a slightly different guise. How can they make freshmen assignments fairly, retaining a balanced distribution and at the same time not destroying individual House spirit? Their latest experiment, announced yesterday, will no more solve the basic problem than previous attempts, even though it does climinate the absurdities...
Time was when the U.S. bureaucracy measured its girth in red tape. Nowadays the proper measure is paper (only a few yards of red tape are still used each year, mainly to bind treaties). This week a Hoover Commission task force estimated that the Government's paper work is costing the taxpayers $4 billion a year. By economizing in carbon copies, cutting down on gobbledygook and other reforms, the task force reckoned the Government could save a tidy $255 million annually...
...guided often by "hastily improvised generalizations." Never before has he shown such firm and specific regard for the natural law and for basic religious principle. This emphasis is the key value of Lippmann's important book. He concludes: "Political ideas acquire operative force in human affairs when . . . they bind men's consciences. Then they possess, as the Confucian doctrine has it, 'the mandate of heaven.' In the crisis within the Western society, there is at issue now the mandate of heaven...