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...Hara-Kiri. When Billy Graham accepted CICCU's invitation to Cambridge last August (he insisted on paying his own expenses), there was a flurry of nattering pro and con in the letters columns of the Times. "The recent increase of fundamentalism among university students cannot but cause concern," wrote an Anglican canon. "Universities exist for the advancement of learning. On that basis, therefore, can fundamentalism claim a hearing at Cambridge...
...president of the New York Stock Exchange, the citadel of American capitalism, is a happily extraverted man in a grey (or sometimes blue) flannel suit who seems little different from the hundreds of other commuters who ride the 8:09 (or sometimes the 8:17) from Greenwich, Con., to Manhattan every weekday. But George Keith Funston is a man with a mission; he wants to make every American a capitalist. His method: persuade every American who can afford it to buy stock in: corporations, thus share in the amazing yet steady growth of the American economy...
...within their club before arriving at a public position? The Republicans say they do not want to be forced to choose sides, and even here their fears are groundless. For what is to prevent the Republicans from sending to the Forum an uncommitted delegation divided equally between pro and con...
Each club, moreover, should send to the forum a delegation prepared to record the club's majority viewpoint on the topic. If a club must declare itself pro or con in the public meeting, there must be much prior discussion among its own members in order to decide on a stand. On the other hand, if groups sent individuals speaking only for themselves, the forum would soon degenerate into a series of personal testaments. This would hardly give students a chance to experience real parliamentary debates...
...leader of the gang (Humphrey Bogart) is a sallow old paranoid with nothing to lose but his worst enemy, the cop (Arthur Kennedy) who put him away. Bogart's younger brother (Dewey Martin) is a mixed-up little slumbunny with hot pants and cold feet. The third con (Robert Middleton) is a 260-lb. flitch of muscle directed by the brain of a badly brought-up six-year...