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...alone among universities getting federal aid, does not use government money to pay the salaries of faculty members with tenure. "We are confident this policy has been wise, since we could theoretically very quickly readjust our total program if government assistance to universities were to cease. We at Harvard cherish our independence--some might say obsessively!" the statement said...
...Pessimistic." President Kennedy cannot even cherish much hope that his proposals will do better during the rest of the session. The prospect, indeed, is that his difficulties with Congress will worsen as a result of his civil rights bill. In the Senate, a Southern filibuster is certain, and while it lasts, all other legislation will be stalled. Whatever the outcome of the battle, Southerners in Congress are going to be at odds with the President and disinclined to go along with his other requests. "Civil rights," says a White House aide, "has changed the whole situation in the House...
...Nowadays trained intelligence is the nation's greatest weapon in the battle for a world fit for people and safe for people," Stevenson maintained. "We have to cherish and expand every 'erg' of brain power we have...
Murdoch entertainments are usually very witty and more than a little strange. Enthusiasts cherish such oddities as the scene in which two characters try to make love in a recumbent church bell. Further, the entertainments are pleasantly foggy with the mists that rise off deep psychological and intellectual waters. The characters rarely do more than waggle their toes in these depths, but the feeling is conveyed that they are all excellent swimmers. In The Unicorn, her seventh novel, the author unwisely grows impatient with toe dipping. She pitches her characters into the murkiest of the soul's dark waters...
...tingling silence, Princess Alexandra and Angus Ogilvy stood before the Archbishop of Canterbury to recite their marriage vows. In the hearing of some 200 million TV droppers-in around the world, the princess promised in a soft, firm voice "to love, cherish, and to obey" her commoner husband. When they had knelt at the altar and signed the register, the Ogil-vys marched merrily back into the pale afternoon. As they drove off in a crystal coach, bagpipers skirled a pibroch, and the great bells pealed...