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...conclusion would still be false. The Council no more represents undergraduates than does the CRIMSON, the Harvard Dramatic Club, or the Dean of Students. If it did--and one can scarcely conceive any body that could--then the weak justification for the administration's actions would be still flimsier: a truly representative body would have the strongest right of any student organization to hear whomever it pleases. And that a Council-sponsored concert would be taken elsewhere to imply University approval of Seeger should influence no one: Harvard's responsibility is to itself, not to public opinion...
Medicine for 400,000. Seagrave's main hospital building is a substantial stone structure which he helped build with his bare hands to show native laborers that Americans do not consider manual work demeaning. The other buildings are of flimsier native construction. Thanks mainly to a U.S. support group, American Medical Center for Burma, Inc., which raises funds, and to drug manufacturers who donate supplies, Dr. Seagrave is able to practice and supervise good medical care for a population of border tribesmen totaling some 400,000. He fills 250 beds and 50 mats with about 2,500 admissions...
Movies were jerkier, care were flimsier, and a million dollars was a whopping sum in 1932, but with W. C. Fields around to act in the first, smash up the second, and spend the third, Hollywood had little need of CinemaScope to turn out a funny film...
Neither Harry Truman nor anybody else could give firm guarantees on South Korea, or any other area in Eastern Asia. The anti-Communist position was flimsier than the grass roof of a Korean house; the best that could be argued was that ECAid might keep off the Red rain until stronger protection was built...
...Tokyo, where the main administrative and business section had been rebuilt in reinforced concrete after the 1923 earthquake, the B-29 firebirds' commanders selected a 10-sq.-mi. area of flimsier construction, east of the Imperial Palace. In Nagoya-which had suffered little from earthquakes, and so had not been modernized-it was a 5-sq.-mi. area in the heart of the city...