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Beyond the proganda suicide of blocking the Conference and repudiating our promise, we feel it is worth trying for progress in security matters. The most pressing need is for disarmament, and the ever present threat of was may compel a sufficient community of interest to secure it. The Soviet Union has been known to jump on the band-wagon before--especially when it became clear that it would be to its advantage: witness Russia's recent acceptance of the jurisdiction of the World Court in order to gain membership in the International Labor Organization. In addition, it looks...
...appeal to the courts. They could not sue Harvard themselves, nor force the Attorney General to do so; yet their strongest feeling has been that some judicial test is necessary. The case of John S. Ames et al.V.Attorney General, therefore , is for a writ of Mandamus to compel Fingold to rehear their application according to "a proper appreciation of his own duty and the rules of law applicable to the questions involved "Meanwhile there were still quiet efforts to smooth out affairs. Two Association directors had been meeting with Harvard officials, and once a nonlegal delegation discussed the case with...
...that ranges over all recorded history in dazzling detail, and pronounced at a time of unprecedented crisis, these words may sound like a thundering anticlimax. Yet the mind that formed them, the context in which they are set down and the view of man that lies behind them, all compel utmost attention from Americans, who themselves are now haunted by the feeling that they are precariously hanging on above a menacing chasm of history...
...What I have announced," said Eden proudly, "is for us a formidable step. You all know that ours is an island story . . . whatever the facts of modern weapons and strategy may compel...
...opera opening nights, say San Franciscans, no woman looks another in the eye-glances glide from the neck down, comparing finery. As for the performers on the stage, they do not necessarily rate full attention either. But this season the excellent San Francisco Opera Company has three attractions that compel all eyes and ears. They are three striking European sopranos whose high Cs are sure to echo across other U.S. opera and concert stages...