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Confusion and Credential Checks
Inside the Festival it was a different picture. The only active non-Communist group to venture within was the American, and what they found was an atmosphere chiefly filled with confusion and credential checks.
"The curriculum of almost all public high schools in 1905 was strictly academic," Conant pointed out, but by 1930 the "widely comprehensive high school," due to its offering of many vocational subjects, turned out students "whose only academic credential for college preparation was a high school diploma."
Despite ability and eloquence, Democratic Atomic Energy Commissioner Thomas E. Murray's frequent personality and policy clashes with AEC Chairman Lewis Strauss made his departure from office readily predictable (TIME, May 6). Last week President Eisenhower made official his decision not to reappoint Murray, whose term expires next week...
¶ Charles Alan Wright, University of Minnesota law professor, Saturday Review: "I think Hiss is innocent . . . Mr. Chambers is the author of one of the longest works of fiction of the year . . ." Cf Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Saturday Review: "Whittaker Chambers has written one of the really significant American autobiographies. [The...