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...third, the criteria for clearance on the whole are over-rigorous, artificial, and inflexible. Through petty technicality, we have wasted the talents of some of the possible top contributors, Oppenheimer being a prominent, though controversial example. It is difficult and expensive to clear a national of even the most friendly foreign country--and after all, the bulk of basic research in atomic physics and rocketry has been done by foreigners. Moreover, such a disqualifying factor as having even distant relatives in a Soviet-bloc country, though sensible in general, has become an ironclad rule. But perhaps the most outstanding excess...
Opposition to Moscowitz's plan came from other members of the Student Council, which must finally approve the list. President Larry R. Johnson '58 announced that "I will do all in my power to retain PBH on the Charities list. It fits the essential criteria for a preferred charity and has always gotten a greater amount than any other single charity...
...somewhat more approving view toward permitting people to move was expressed by Charles H. Taylor, Master of Kirkland House. Taylor felt that if criteria for moving were established "where there was real necessity as against whim, this might have certain possibilities...
...Wynder pointed out, however, that a 40% filter would be effective only "provided that the smoker does not decide to smoke twice as many cigarettes, and provided, too, that the tobacco selection, cut or packing, is not altered to yield increasingly more tar ... Regulations must be passed that establish criteria for the amount of tar which may pass through a given filter, and require the manufacturer to state the effectiveness of the filter...
...conventional criteria just don't hold up," Strasberg said. "But something does happen when these people come on the stage. The basic requirement is this: the capacity to be excited by imaginary stimuli. The actor must be able to reproduce a reaction to a situation at will...