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Many U.S. labor leaders have contented themselves with shouting their criticism from across the political chasm that separates them from the Republican Administration. Not so the C.I.O. Steelworkers' President David J. McDonald, a Democrat who has been a frequent White House visitor since Jan. 20. 1953. Last week Dave McDonald again dropped in on President Eisenhower, who likes him and respects his judgment. What McDonald had to say about the nation's economy left the President visibly impressed...
...exams in an effort to cut out the worst abuses of the electoral system. Tutorial was widely increased to help prepare students in the special fields. But with the student body and tutors casually scattered about Cambridge contact between the two was limited. Not only had an undeniable social chasm split the Gold Coast and the Yard, offending Lowell's delicate democratic sense, but his educational program stood in danger of falling before an unmanageable student body. He did not wait for Harkness...
Fear of Freedom." The width of the chasm between East and West on such matters as free elections in Germany and Austria could be measured by two remarks. One was Molotov's aside to An thony Eden: "What matters is not elections, but what kind of government comes out of the elections. We could not toler ate a government that would be hostile to us . . ." The other was John Foster Dulles': "We were willing to place trust in the German and Austrian peoples. The Soviet Union was not . . . The Atlantic Charter to which we all subscribed called...
...transport planes stood by, and the delegations gathered up their thickets of papers, Western ministers could go home with a professional sense of achievement that they had scored more than they had been scored upon. But the net of Berlin was a clearer-eyed view of a chasm, and who could raise a cheer over that...
Astonishing Adults. The bookstores last week were full of fresh attempts to bridge the chasm. U.S. publishers were offering close to 1,400 titles classified by age groups from two to 17. In content, they ranged from "exploring the farmyard becomes dangerous when Smudge and Pudge meet the bees'' to matters of an interplanetary nature ("carefully checked by experts"). Most of the authors ignored the settled conviction of that old constructional genius, Kenneth Grahame, that the best way to bridge the classic chasm is to grasp what the adult world looks like from the child's side...