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...Reuther, in an address sponsored by the Harvard Liberal Union, at New Lecture Hall, carefully distinguished between support of the national ticket and blanket approval of the Party. "We have not endorsed the Democratic Party," he said, "and I have never lifted one finger to help a Dixiecrat." He emphasized that the UAW and other labor unions consider only the issues in giving their support to political candidates...
...contrast to the attitude of the HYRC, the Law School young Republicans, and the Students for Eisenhower, the Eisenhower Club has definite plans and commitments from now until election day. Morton Korn '57 stated that the Eisenhower Club, of which he is president, does not believe in "blanket endorsement" of all Republican candidates, but prefers to concentrate its work with one selected man who lives up to the philosophy of Eisenhower Republicanism. The Eisenhower Club has chosen Representative Curtis, who wrote them for assistance, as the local candidate for whom to campaign. Korn estimated that an average of five people...
...nuance. The hard-hitting tales are about the tensions of race relations, a subject that a South African writer like 32-year-old Nadine Gordimer (The Lying Days) can no more evade than a tongue can skirt a newly empty tooth socket. Author Gordimer's tactic is to blanket both races in a fog of routinely benevolent relationships and then lift it suddenly, revealing the complacent whites standing on the edge of an emotional abyss. A kindly farming couple find a strange black boy dead of pneumonia. He proves to be an out-of-bounds native, and they suddenly...
...Practice, after all, cannot be stopped just because a first-string tackle has staggered out of the huddle, rag-doll limp, his eyes rolling in his head. Says Rose Bowl Hero Kaiser: "You see a guy out in a canoe on Red Cedar River with his girl and a blanket and you wonder what you're doing it for. But other times you get out there feeling good and you just plain want to butt heads...
...recent statement of principles. The Association urged for academic due process and said that Communist Party membership or invocation of the Fifth Amendment was not sufficient ground for dismissal without an investigation and consideration of any mitigating circumstances and the individual's own record. The press indignantly demanded a blanket rule approach, however, ignoring these more human considerations by saying that the Party is a proven conspiracy and therefore all membership in it is conspiratorial...