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...circumstances have interfered with what once was a plausible and effective policy. A student who now obeys the Board's dictum and goes to work is very likely to be caught in the tight draft situation, lose his 2-S classification and be inducted into the military. Sometimes a few courses at night school will placate a local draft board without violating the conditions for readmission to Harvard. But when a local board demands full-time college attendance to qualify for 2-S, the student is caught in a dilemma: either he forsakes Harvard, or he is drafted...
...Congress tries to end the strike with legislation, Rosenthal said, the results would probably be disappointing -- and perhaps expensive for the companies. He quoted Dunlop's dictum that "you can withhold more from the working place than your labor...
...fact, though notorious for their rough handling of prisoners in the past, Chicago police treated Speck with a solicitude extended to no other prisoner in their memory. Bowing to the U.S. Supreme Court's dictum-handed down in the historic Escobedo case, which involved the Chicago cops themselves-that a suspect may not be questioned without a lawyer's advice, police let more than a week elapse without attempting to interrogate Speck. Such new-found deference evoked caustic comment from several sources, among them Author Truman Capote, whose bestseller In Cold Blood is an exhaustive anatomy...
...with Indian saris and African robes. Although 59 nations, stretching from China to the U.S., are represented, 75% of A.U.B.'s 3,245 students and two-thirds of its 628 teachers are Arabs, and any attempts at pro-U.S. or Christian indoctrination are forbidden. This follows the dictum of A.U.B.'s founder, Missionary Daniel Bliss, that "a man, white, black, or yellow, Christian, Jew, Mohammedan or heathen may enter . . . and go out believing in one God, or many Gods...
...disciplined, indoctrinated population, which constitutes a quarter of the human race, is told ceaselessly that the U.S. is "the world's chief enemy." To read the intentions of this sullen giant and to formulate its policy toward it, the U.S. obviously and vitally needs to heed the ancient dictum: "Know thine enemy." Knowledge is the basis of policy-but just how much does the U.S. know, and how much can it find out, about a nation of such implacable hostility and resolute secrecy...