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Through the years, the University has been "improving" its bell system little by little. In the early 1800's student pranks forced the Corporation to remove from public access the chain which rang the bell. Even then, authorities were careful lest more diligent pranksters find a way to disrupt nocturnal slumbers and daily routine...
...speech dovetailed perfectly, in timing and content, with Moscow's campaign to disrupt the London agreements. But the speaker was not a delegate of the Soviet Union or one of its Communist satellites. He was V. K. Krishna Menon of India, trusted adviser to Premier Nehru and traveling apostle of Nehru's anti-Western "neutrality...
...McCarthy's controversy with Eisenhower and with a growing number of Republican Senators is his insistence that his crusade against Communists justifies any tactics, including those that disrupt the executive branch of the Government. Contrary to law, Roughneck Joe McCarthy ("I am going to kick the brains out of anyone who protects Communists") gets classified information from executive-branch underlings, boasts that he will continue to do so, and dares the Justice Department to indict...
...obvious to some Republican Senators (not including the four on the committee) that this game would disrupt the functioning of the U.S. Government. At week's end Senate Republican Leader Knowland defended President Eisenhower's stand and called McCarthy's position "dangerous and doubtful." New Jersey's H. Alexander Smith went further. "Beyond belief" was Smith's label for McCarthy's contention that all federal employees had a duty to report to him any information that, in the employee's judgment, indicated illegality or impropriety in the Executive Branch. Smith also attacked McCarthy...
...repeated evidences of the Indian government's hostility to Christian missions, some of it open, much of it half-concealed in bureaucratic pigeonholes. Says the Protestant National Christian Council of India: "The hostility being displayed these days cannot be spontaneous. There seems to be an organized attempt to disrupt the good relations which have existed so far between Christians and their [Hindu] countrymen." India's Committee of Catholic Bishops admits that the situation is causing "gravest anxiety," and the Apostolic Internuncio has taken up with the Indian government recent difficulties in obtaining visas for Catholic missionaries...