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Solar eclipses were once innocent festivals of science, observed for the blameless information that could be extracted from them. That age has passed. Last week the Air Force Cambridge Research Center told how the eclipse of next June 30 will be organized as elaborately as a major bombing raid...
Milk-Wagon Horses. Washington reporters themselves are far from blameless in their relations with the Administration. Some seem to feel that because their papers supported Ike, their hands are tied, that all stories must be favorable. Said one cynical newsman: "Reporters don't have to be told any more than milkwagon horses. They learned all the stops long ago, and they do it just by instinct.-Many a newsman also seems overawed by Ike's national popularity. "I don't think our readers are ready for critical reporting yet," says a top columnist...
...Fear itself is corrosive. Fear and freedom cannot co-exist....I am deeply disturbed when I encounter American citizens of blameless character and unquestioned loyalty who confess they fear to enter a debate or take a position not in conformity with the views of certain political leaders, because of the fancied danger they will be thought suspect...
LoDolce, who is now married and the father of two children, received the news in a Buffalo veterans' hospital-where, as an ex-soldier with an officially blameless record, he is receiving treatment for a wartime back injury. He was jubilant. Icardi, now working as a law clerk in Pittsburgh, announced that he hoped to publish a book giving the "true" story of his commander's death. But, officially speaking, the Holohan case seemed closed for good...
...minister could be found, it is doubtful whether the course would be a good idea. The same objection as that raised against the Chaplain would prevail it is contrary to the spirit of Harvard education to try to persuade the student to adopt any opinion or attitude, even so blameless an attitude as the religious one. He is, and should remain, free to work his own way to his own opinions...