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...Alamos A-bomb laboratory and later chairman of the AEC's General Advisory Committee. A three-man special board headed by the University of North Carolina's President Gordon Gray (now Defense Mobilization Director) concluded in 1954 that Oppenheimer was a loyal citizen, but that past "disregard for the requirements of the security system" made him a security risk. Director of Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, Oppenheimer. 53, has been deep in basic research in atomic physics since the Gray board decision, but has had nothing to do with Government research or national secrets...
...final decision to disregard possible offense to France and to ship arms to Tunisia was, in the circumstances, the best one. By giving a measure of approval to North African independence and by gaining British support for the move, the United States has effectively disassociated itself from the colonialist camp. If in doing so, America has temporarily alienated France, the breach is only temporary and was, moreover, inevitable...
With this volume, Wilson's game of intellectual hooky is certainly up. The book is a sequence of unblinking non sequiturs, half-fashioned logic and firm disregard for the English language. The merit of The Outsider was that it brought fresh insight to such diverse figures as Shaw and Hemingway, Van Gogh and T. S. Eliot, by casting them in the role of questing near-metaphysicians at the bedside of modern man. The tragic dilemma, as Wilson developed it, was that the Outsider had outdistanced the comforting illusions of everyday society while falling short of the luminous serenity...
...both Meyner and Wagner strongly carry Negro districts. Northern Democrats have long been associated with the cause of civil rights, and even if on this issue the GOP seems stronger, to assume that the Negro votes solely on the civil rights issue is to insult his civic intelligence and disregard his economic needs...
...Soviet Union, he pointed out, is apparently willing to disregard high costs in planning for its military power. "It may be sure that we need more of this attitude," he concluded...