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Mary Bruchholz, Radcliffe '49, outlined the scope of activities the NSO intends to encompass. The central body, she said, would sift workings of various member groups and channel them to campuses where effective ideas could be adopted. "Avenues opened to Radcliffe students by the NSO would be limitless," she affirmed...
...result, the supporters of this type of world organization can now include those who recognize the good in the UN as the only existing international body but at the same times realize its inherent imperfections. They can also encompass those Americans who favor world government but not at the expense of creating an unbridgeable gulf between Russian and this country...
...keep abreast of Oscar Williams' A Little Treasury of Modern Poetry (Scribner), which appeared last June and has already sold 18,000 copies, quite a trick at the price ($3.50) in a country still supposedly shy of modern verse. Williams' arrangement is by theme, and his choices encompass most of the best poems as well as the best poets. Like "mr u," he includes his own poetry with honest liberality (nine of his to four each for Robert Bridges and Edwin Arlington Robinson...
Those tasks would encompass the entire field of atomic research, production, engineering and application. Traditional property rights were swept aside. In the atomic field there would be no such thing as private ownership. The commission would be sole owner or would acquire ownership of all facilities the U.S. might need for the production of fissionable material; of all materials capable of producing an atomic chain reaction; of property containing source materials. It would be authorized to: produce fissionable material with its own facilities or make contracts for production; mine and refine supplies; distribute fissionable materials and byproducts; and under...
From the director of market research for a large airplane manufacturer: ". . . Giving cohesive purpose to an editorial objective that must encompass not only many moods in one nation, but a host of tradition-based attitudes in other countries, is a difficult task. Your approach to the problem deserves commendation and prompts my best wishes...