Word: dilemmas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...among thousands of apparently unrelated bits of "news" last week were two items as closely related as the horns of a dilemma. One was that the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission is going to establish a testing ground for atomic weapons somewhere in the Pacific. The other was a sentence spoken by a Republican presidential candidate, Harold Stassen: "The greatest basic competition of all history [Russia v. the U.S.] cannot really be decided...
When Nicaraguan Dictator Anastasio Somoza forcibly knocked over the Government of his too-independent successor, President Leonardo Argüello (TIME, June 9), the U.S., along with the other nations of the hemisphere, was presented with a neat dilemma. To recognize Somoza's puppet regime would be to condone an irresponsible and undemocratic coup. To refuse to recognize him would mean a departure from the general diplomatic practice of recognizing any government that is clearly in power and that promises to live up to its international obligations...
...most of the marriages are convincingly beautiful.) The second difficulty: it is all but impossible to communicate the crucial source of a war prisoner's suffering-monotony-without making the movie itself too monotonous to sit through. The makers of this film have not quite solved this dilemma. There is some pretty good suspense, some drama of a routine sort and a fair amount of corn. But life around the camp sometimes seems rather busy and always seems comfortable and jolly...
...Publications and Student Government) will, in a sense, trail-blaze for NSO itself when it seeks to formulate ways for rendering student governments functional rather than merely honorifle. Commission III (Educational Opportunities and Discrimination) might adopt the suggestion for a national employment counseling service to beat the "closed shop" dilemma confronting many men and women of minority race or religion in professional and other fields. Commission IV (Educational Standards and Curricula) should attempt to gain united student support for increased faculty salaries. Commission V (International Student Cooperation) faces a full agenda with world student exchange, foreign relief work and rehabilitation...
...reportedly, will have its findings in the Corporation's hands in time for a pre-June 5 publication. Once the commission's work is made known only Corporation action will stand between epithets such as "cheapest place to get a Ph D." and a happy solution of the paradoxical dilemma of religion at Harvard...