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...Ripon when only 35. In the eleven years since, he has upped enrollments from 160 to 600. boosted his endowment from $750,000 to more than $3,000,000, strengthened the quality of his faculty by appointing only Ph.D.s from first-class universities to professorships. "Education," says he, "must dispel the all too common notion that ideas and ideals do not count, that education is not concerned with what is good and what is evil, but is really only a matter of adjustment to environment. It is high time for all educators to question our values, not cynically...
...country by surprise, but the country's reaction-in soaring prices and roaring protests-has given the Mexican government almost as big a shock. Last week, in his first direct appeal to the people, President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines spoke over radio and TV in an effort to dispel a mood of confusion and despair...
While political cartoonists delight in picturing the evils of America's tariff walls, Congress has never seemed to find any interest in lowering them. Within the past few months, however, a number of government commissions have acted to dispel Congressional fears about lowered tariffs. Both the President and leading economists are now pleading for an even more liberal trade policy than the one outlined in the Randall Report. Favoring freer trade are not only the traditional arguments such as lower prices for home consumers, but a present need directly connected to the security of the United States...
...dispel the gloom and to stiffen his countrymen's resolution to achieve prosperity and independence, West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer gathered together six Cabinet ministers and made a flying postconference trip to Berlin. To the 2,200,000 West German citizens of this beleaguered isle in the German Red sea, he promised generous help from Bonn to fight unemployment, expand West Berlin commerce with West Germany and meet the city's big budget deficit of 900 million Deutsche Marks ($214,285,000). To the 17 million East Germans, for whom the Berlin conference was a last forlorn hope...
...Although I am sure that my pat claims of the privilege have been both legally justified and morally right, I now intend to waive my constitutional rights own activities and associations. I hope that be telling my own political history I can help to dispel suspicion and contribute to public understanding...