Word: dissentions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Millikin dissent left Clarence Ran dall a disillusioned chairman. A stronger report would have cost few additional dissents, but would have given Ike a far better bargaining position from which to deal with Congress. As it is, in order to get a strong new trade policy, the Administra tion will have to fight hard for all the commission's major proposals...
...hikers, naturalists or canoeists. Recently the Government began planning construction of a modern, two-lane automobile highway to open the area and its delightful vistas to the general public. But last week, when the Washington Post ran an editorial commending the parkway scheme, it received a sharp and moving dissent. Its author: woods-wise, mountain-loving Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas...
Some congressional inquiries have revealed a distinct tendency to become inquisitions . . . Treason and dissent are being confused . . . Un-American attitudes toward ideas and books are becoming current . . . Let us always be ready to meet around a conference table with the rulers of Communist countries . . . In human conflicts, there can be no substitute for negotiation...
...spokesman for organized medicine, the A.M.A. holds that changes on the medical scene should be made by doctors, and laymen had best keep hands off. This week a vigorous dissent comes from a ruggedly individualistic Yankee doctor with a brilliant record of medical achievement. Says Boston's Dr. James Howard Means* in Doctors, People, and Government (Little, Brown; $3.50): "The impulse to reform in medical public affairs comes usually from without, and resistance to it from within the majority fold of organized medicine ... It is only under the lash of public opinion that organized medicine makes any social progress...
This restriction of courses, however, is not the restriction which seems to be bothering the Princetonians. Most seem to be pretty satisfied with their academic life; the gripes and dissent come up about other prohibitions entirely...