Word: controllers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...views of those permitted to speak would then carry Harvard's official endorsement. Furthermore it would be impossible in practice to agree on what speakers threatened to corrupt our youth. Some people would bar President Truman, others Senator Taft. Still others would bar anti-vivisectionists or opponents of birth control or World Federalists or Christian Scientists or Monsignor Sheen or Colonel McCormick. The answer is not suppression of "dangerous" ideas . . . but more vigorous statement of American ideas, and faith which would be well-founded in the ability of our students to distinguish between good and evil...
...score was 18 up at half-time, but then Branford seized control of the backboards to bring the count to 31 to 25 at the end of the third quarter. In the last quarter, Lowell's John Goldsmith came through with two Bellboy specialties, fast break baskets...
Critical legislation such as rent control (due to expire March 31) and ECA appropriations were tied up. Something had to give. At week's end, in an atmosphere of dull obstinacy, members came to a bitter showdown...
...House, too, a coalition of Republicans and Southern Democrats tirelessly pecked and burrowed away at Harry Truman's Fair Deal, item by item. Last week the item was rent control. The Administration wanted it extended until March 1951. Republicans argued instead for a wait-&-see extension to run only until July 1. Dixiecrat E. E. ("Goober") Cox of Georgia was blunter: "Continue controls for 90 days and then have the whole thing thrown out the window...
Russia, the ultimate in state control, has the ultimate in state health insurance. Medical service is free to all. Doctors and dentists are assigned and paid by the state. Benefits, however, are limited by facilities available. Relative example: Russia has one dentist for 14,000 people; Britain has one dentist for 3,271 people, the U.S. one for 1,885 people...