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...successful attempts by certain groups and individuals to undermine the status of all reformers... The conviction of Alger Hiss and the confession of Klaus Fuchs have been heavy blows to those who 'would win more victories for humanity.' For the time being, the reformer must struggle against a dark blanket of public suspicion woven by the same types of persons who have always fought him but now are aided by the revelations of the traitorous actions of a few fanatics...
...believe that beyond mundane effort lies a nebulous ideal. To those who "would win more victories for humanity," President Conant reminded that the conviction of Alger Hiss and the confession of Klaus Fuchs have been heavy blows against the tradition of progress through reform and that now "a dark blanket of public suspicion woven by the same type of persons who have always fought the reformer but now aided by the revelations of the traitorous actions of a few fanatics...
...dawn next morning a rescue party of experienced climbers set off up the mountain. It was mid-afternoon when they came back, pulling a lifeless, blanket-covered form on a toboggan. The vicar came out to meet them. Head bare, his overcoat collar turned up around his neck, he read from a prayer book: "Into thy hands, O merciful Saviour, we commend the soul of thy servant, now departed from the body . . ." Then he bent over the toboggan and wept...
...heading from Amorita, Okla. for the hospital at Hardtner, Kans., crossed the state line. In the back seat, Mrs. Ray Munsell Jr., 21, braced herself against sharpening labor pains, and reached out now & then to steady her three-year-old daughter Roberta, who was dozing beside her in a blanket...
...last week, his civilian clothes hidden under his hospital uniform, John dropped in to the Broadmoor infirmary, complaining of illness. An attendant went for a doctor. Left alone in the room, John seized a blanket, made a beeline for an open window, dropped on to a shed roof, threw the blanket over a ten-foot wall and slid down to freedom. A villager spotted his exit and gave chase, but John eluded him. No siren alerted the village to the escape: the Ministry of Health does not believe in such devices. Soon afterward the lunatic, clad in a dapper pinstripe...