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...will be marched to the donating station in a unit IS the coercion of conformity. Perhaps, as Mr. Balding contends, this is not "unusual pressure." But it is pressure nevertheless, and a kind of pressure neither the ROTC nor any other department of the University has a right to exert...
...Menace of Momentum. Still in the framework set by foreign policy, the President moved easily to the "inescapable need for economic health and strength if we are to maintain adequate military power and exert leadership for peace in the world." The ultimate economic aims are still a balanced budget, a reduction of taxes, and a checkrein on "the menace of inflation." But "the momentum of past programs' (i.e., Harry Truman's commitments) will delay tax reduction until "we can succeed in bringing the budget under control" (unlikely...
There is also the possibility--we should say probability--that Chiang could exert all the force of a gnat against Mao. Kuomintang officials themselves have reckoned that preparations will take a year. But even Chiang's much discussed "commando raids," could do little damage unless supported by American forces. If anything, Eisenhower's order will thus have little significance save balming the torture minds of those who demand action--any action...
John Kidder is almost completely paralyzed. He can move only his head and neck, and exert pressure with his right leg and foot. So the bottom of the rocking bed has a button switch that he presses with his toe to stop the motion, e.g., when the kids are playing in the room and a ball rolls underneath, and restart it. There is also a bulb-type air horn which squawks like a duck when he presses it to summon attention...
...three weeks he thinks Leverett may "look more like grown-up boys, physically speaking, but intellectually they are very mature." He completely approves the free boy-girl relationships here as any typically French man should (at French universities girls out-number boys): "After all there is no means to exert supervision on what they are doing; it is none of my business how they mix outside the lecture room." DAVID C. D. ROGERS