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...advantages in an insurance program, however, contradict the department's stand. Insuring the players would guarantee that all medical expanses would be paid. Under current HAA policy, accidents must be paid for by parents, or if the student cannot afford treatment, by a special University fund. It is not only difficult, but unfair, to separate those who can afford medical treatment from those who cannot. Every man who plays football for his House deserves the benefits of an insurance plan...
...Snark, whose assertion was that what he said three times was true, but he can relate anything in the world to anything else, and spin such long-chain molecules of thought that professors to whom a house is a house would rather maintain a purse-lipped reserve than openly contradict...
...persons "whose political, social, economic and philosophical outlook differs from the beliefs and sentiments of many American citizens." Americans must put up with that fact, said the lawyers. All such employees are obliged, however, to abide by the laws of their host country, even if some of those laws contradict their own beliefs and sentiments...
Your editorial on Stevenson was well-reasoned and highly convincing, but your treatment of Eisenhower seemed to contradict the opening distinction you made between present-day "hardened" Liberalism and careful independence of mind. To one who still has what he feels to be the best of reasons in favoring the General, you seemed guilty of one intellectual sin you deplored, "the Big Oversimplification." To cite at least three instances of this: (1) "On foreign affairs, where he is meant to be an expert, all Eisenhower has offered is a restatement of Democratic policy on Europe, in terms just different enough...
What Is Cooking. Juliana did as well at captivating Washington correspondents. "It must be wonderful sport," she said at a Statler Hotel luncheon with press, radio & television reporters, "to contradict each other. You are interested in the kitchen of the world-you want to find out what is cooking . . . who has a finger in the pie and who will burn his finger." But her interview with Washington newshens seemed to leave her slightly appalled. "My God," she murmured, as she looked at one of a sheaf of written questions which had been submitted. She had been asked...