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...joined in the attack. Left-leaning Americans for Democratic Action charged that the Democratic leadership in Congress "surrendered before a shot was fired." The A.D.A.-ish National Committee for An Effective Congress accused Johnson and House Speaker Sam Rayburn of "liberal talking, conservative legislating." And in the latest Democratic Digest, National Chairman Paul Butler took the inside cover to urge the congressional Democrats not to let the veto threat scare them into "watering down our vital programs...
...Oregon in the 1960 campaign my differences with Mr. Neuberger. I shall not support him for re-election." Wearily, Dick Neuberger searched his mind for possible reasons for the new split. "Maybe he's jealous," he speculated, "of an article I had published in the Reader's Digest...
Accustomed to simply learning what the teacher says, the Freshman often does not accept intellectual responsibility in college, Monro said. The Dean claimed that large lecture courses are deceiving, in this respect, since they give the student the impression that he need do no more than digest the material in lectures or required reading...
Died. Gleb Maksimilianovich Krzhizhanovsky, 87, oldest Bolshevist revolutionary, who shared with Lenin a 17-month prison term that began in 1895, later became a director of the Soviet Union's first Five-Year Plan, was eulogized in 1957 by the Current Digest of the Soviet Press as "one of the founders of the State Commission for Electrification of Russia . . . founder of the scientific school of Soviet power engineering, a dreamer and poet...
Last fall the HLU sponsored--among other things--a speech by Linus Pauling, raised $300 for Clinton's bombed-out high school, and helped edit the Overseas Review, a digest of excerpts from the liberal press, designed especially for African and Asian students. "Our big topics this year are disarmament, segregation, underdeveloped countries, and the draft," explained president James Bardeen '60. The group has published a 25 page booklet on nuclear policy, and plans a similar work on the U.S. draft laws...