Word: formals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story in Rechnitz and in many another border town of the nation which more than any other has opened its heart and its hearths to refugees from Hungary. Committed to formal neutrality by the treaty that drove the Russians out of their country less than two years before, the people of Austria have been far from neutral toward the refugee Hungarians. Alone of all nations, they welcomed the halt, the blind, the sick and the aged among the refugees and did not seek to pick among them...
...physical-medicine experts considered Mashhur too young for formal retraining exercises, but encouraged him to try to use his right (which he can do with a little effort), including right-handed salutes...
...Army National Guard, with no formal training requirement, does seem to be a soft deal. A reasonable tightening of active duty requirements, as the NGA itself says, is in order. The Defense Department now allows high school students to put off active service until graduation, and still maintain the draft exemption granted to men who enlist between the ages of seventeen and eighteen-and-a-half. This allowance is the same granted in the six-month reserve program. But this means that those enlistees who go to college must drop a term, and those beginning careers will also be seriously...
Meanwhile, in Budapest yesterday, Worthy said he may ask the State Department for an open formal hearing in Hungary on a directive that he must return to the United States. He also said he is going to consult with the American Civil Liberties Union, which has promised to make a test case of State Department passport restrictions against travel by American correspondents in Communist China...
...long as reading is "our duty to the party," it might as well not exist. The science of the humanities, otherwise known as English Literature must be ousted from consciousness if we are to read. In the case of a few hardy souls, formal study can provide a few illuminating tools. But when studying books means answering questions, and when the answers are to be assessed by a man who puts a higher value on a stock response than a capacity to ignore the theories and the critics, then reading is on the way out. Any group of people which...