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...University does fail to meet a "five-year plan" or "ten-year plan" for expansion, it need not wholly detach itself from the issue. Harvard could still actively contribute to the solution of the national problem merely by advising the nation's educators in their planning efforts and by training teachers. Whether or not Harvard must ultimately choose such a role, the Administration in the meantime should stop the aimless drift toward expansion. It must face the dilemma squarely and calculate the price it may be forced...
...including Emperor Hirohito, have studied them lovingly in every possible way. But no one has figured out why they thrive in so few places, or how they reproduce. One theory is that water currents of just the right kind are needed to bounce the marimos along the bottom and detach bits of fuzzy green stuff to grow into young marimos. No marimo lover, however skilled, has duplicated this process...
...atmosphere of good will, a French and a German representative had been haggling all day in the Hotel Bristol over the Saar settlement. The French kept insisting on the word "irrevocable." Adenauer's coalition leaders, arriving from Germany, were firmly opposed to any concession which would permanently detach the Saar from Germany. "I cannot go to my Parliament with some vague promise that we will agree on the Saar sometime in the future," Mendès told Adenauer...
...even better. Says Smythies: a level-headed medical colleague "spent a quarter of an hour gazing at a plain glass full of water and trying to describe to me the perfection of its diamond brilliance." But there are also distortions. The observer may feel his limbs detach themselves from his body and lie on the floor beside him. (Not funny, insists Dr. Smythies.) The room may grow enormously or change shape, the angles becoming alternately acute and obtuse. Time slows down, so that "teatime goes on forever," and the subject "will feel quite literally that...
This poll confirms what most political observers have been saying for months-that Ike can win more independents than any other Republican in sight. (He can probably detach more Democrats...