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...permanent occupant of the chair, criticized the "pessimism and parochialism" of American scholarship, which falls to provide "the proper fusion of national and international ideas." Students of the national culture often fall in two respects: they do not understand the United States' European background fully; and they tend to bypass Latin American contributions to literature...
...every desk was a precision-balanced draftsman's lamp; whole walls were covered with a fabric that would accept thumbtacks; through a first-of-its-kind telephone system, wives, friends and public-relations men could bypass the main switchboard, reach TIME people from anywhere in the U.S. by dialing LL6 and the appropriate extension. Interior decorators put up a fight for their geometrical inventions, but were mowed down by furniture-shifting editors with ideas of their own. Senior Editor A. T. Baker even brought along his old, scarred typing table. The new ones are built like wall shelves...
Last week Kayser's bypass of the Justice Department paid off. From the FPC came a four-man opinion okaying El Paso's purchase of Pacific Northwest, making it the biggest gas carrier. FPC acknowledged that there might be a reduction of competition for California customers, and also less competition in buying gas from independent producers. But the commissioners took the stand that it was not particularly significant, because the merged El Paso-Pacific Northwest combine faces new competition in the California market from the Transwestern Pipeline Co., recently authorized to build a $192 million pipeline into...
...Senator Hubert Humphrey, the President aligned himself with Humphrey's persistent effort to remove a major roadblock in the U.S. relationship with the International Court of Justice at The Hague. The roadblock: the so-called Connally Amendment of 1946, under which the U.S. reserves the right to bypass the World Court on any dispute that it considers "essentially domestic...
...American Automobile Association and the Georgia State Department of Commerce sat down for still another in a long procession of meetings with Mayor Godfrey and Boss Dawson at the Long County courthouse, laid out the motorists' grievances about the speed trap, and warned that traffic might just bypass Ludowici entirely if things did not change. In the midst of the proceedings, Good Government Leaguer Chapman got in a fist fight with Dawson, touched off an uproar that a pistol-packing state trooper had to break up. But when things had quieted down, the meeting brought unexpected results. Mayor Godfrey...