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...argument against the transfer of Congressional responsibility from the Republicans. He predicted that such a result would thrust partisan obstacles in his path. The Senate Democratic Policy Committee this week made the following policy decisions by way of proving it: 1) Not to permit the special Senate session to confirm the President's pending appointments, two to the Atomic Energy Commission and another to the Supreme Court; 2) To give a "quiet burial" to the Dixon-Yates private power contract, which the Democrats have made a partisan issue. The point is, as the President forecast, that if the Democrats...
...Radcliffe Administration, which does not normally give honorary degrees, decided to award citations to distinguished alumnae on this special occasion. But Mildred P. Sherman, Dean of College Relations and Director of the Anniversary Celebration, would neither confirm nor deny the names of the recipients. Last night, however, Mrs. Hull said that she would definitely receive a citation...
...land have carried this sensational piece of news: "Before very long, the Eisenhower Administration is likely to have to answer a short, highly practical question: 'Do we really need scientists, or can we just make do with Lewis Strauss?' " They think that Strauss must go because he confirmed the verdict of the Gordon Gray board which withdrew Oppenheimer's security clearance-although neither the board nor Strauss reflected on Oppenheimer's loyalty. That was bad enough-now by silence Strauss seems to confirm the Shepley-Blair book...
...lethargy, thus making both types more responsive to psychiatric treatment. Three California doctors used such words as "dramatic" and "incredible" to describe the improvement wrought by reserpine* in 80% of the 74 patients on whom they tried it. They forecast in the A.M.A. Journal: "If . . . long-term studies substantially confirm these preliminary findings, reserpine will be the most important therapeutic development in the history of psychiatry...
...possibility that the U.S. will appear to be too arrogant in world affairs. He is troubled by "pronouncements of rigid policy by American leaders" and by "the growing emphasis on the military aspect of anti-Communist defense." Any unilateral action by the U.S., he fears, "will tend to confirm the Communist charge that our purpose is not disinterested cooperation but self-interested domination." As the U.S. stands before the world it must be humble. "We are never going to solve many of the hard problems of the world, but will simply have to learn to live with them for years...