Word: confrontation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...owner to put up cow barns, whether he can afford it or not. If a farmer rated laggard is put "under supervision," he can get a hearing before the A.E.C. But since the A.E.C. is both prosecutor and judge, he usually gets little satisfaction. He has no right to confront his accuser; the hearings are closed to both public and press. "We see nothing wrong with the trial of a farmer by his peers," explains an officer of the National Farmers Union, "We regard it as a bold experiment in self-government of the industry...
There was a guy working out in the Crimson infield yesterday who would be pretty fine to have in uniform this afternoon. An experienced shortstop and a fine clutch hitter, this ballplayer would go a long way toward solving some of the problems that confront Coach Norm Shepard...
Concluded Branch: while there have been some "favorable developments," e.g., Idaho Power Co.'s Hell's Canyon project, Alabama Power Co.'s Coosa River project, "the danger is that while counting our blessings, we may minimize the threats that confront us from a dozen directions...
...Biographer Carrington traces the story, now that the tumult and the shouting have died, Kipling rises from his grave to confront the world with neither a hum ble nor a notably contrite heart. He had the courage to hate -a healthy hate of all those who sneered at the seriousness of the white man's burden, who denigrated duty, honor, country. Americans, who in the past decade have had to accept concern for an area far greater than that ever ruled by the British Empire, may today better understand Rudyard Kipling -"this literary man," as Biographer Carrington puts...
Ideally, the College could certainly perform a service to the nation by increasing its enrollment and at the same time maintaining high standards. But the current state of American education is far from ideal. Indeed, the troubles that confront colleges and universities in the country are such that for at least the next several years--barring the endowment miracle mentioned yesterday--Harvard can make its most valuable contribution to the nation only by putting aside any thought of immediate expansion...