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...evident that the actions of Senator McCarthy have been in the past, and are continuing to be, too rashly considered by the press, and consequently, by Americans in general. The two contrasting opinions, the one condoning him, the other condemning him, omit any sort of rational criteria. The former attaches its validity to the fact that the senator in question is most assertively anti-communist. Therefore, they reason, he is right, and they seem to evade any ethical or moral judgment, as irrelevant to the asumption that he is essentially good. The latter, meanwhile, attacks him from the opposite standpoint...
Damage claims resulting from hearing loss are plaguing U.S. industry. Against a single New Jersey company they total no less than $5,000,000. Medical criteria to determine whether there has been an actual loss of hearing, and if so to what degree, are only now being standardized. To correlate the results of scattered research, and to help industry cut down noise, the Mellon Institute's Industrial Hygiene Foundation in Pittsburgh has agreed to act as a "unifying agent...
...according to Alabama's Tuskegee Institute. In making the announcement last week, Tuskegee concluded that "lynching as traditionally defined and as a barometer for measuring the status of race relations . . . seems no longer to be a valid index." Henceforth, the institute will base its annual report on other criteria...
...teacher to retain his position will not be questioned as long as he does not act unlawfully or immorally or does not use his position to distort facts or to insist upon the acceptance of his own beliefs as the only possible truths." Moore said he felt that these criteria would allow a person to use the Fifth Amendment to avoid testimony...
...there is another group beside the prodigals--President Jordan calls those in this category his "gambler's group"--whose achievements have not yet equaled their potentialities. He says, "Each year we deliberately gamble on a fair number of young women who may not rank impressively by the criteria we have so carefully established but who none the less seem to the Committee to possess interesting personalities or to have cutting edges to their minds." A four-year study of the "gambler's group" proved they are worth the risk. Their academic record is equal to that of the student body...