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...Freelance Photographer Lee Lockwood and reported last week in LIFE-raised fears that the Communists were once again resorting to the inhuman brainwashing techniques whose widespread use during the Korean War horrified the world. U.S. Ambassadorat-Large W. Averell Harriman warned that "it would be a matter of the gravest concern" if that were the case, and the State Department demanded that Hanoi allow the International Committee of the Red Cross to visit and examine the U.S. prisoners held in the North...
That sort of interchange is symptomatic of the Courier's gravest problem: most of its staff members are from the North, and they are white. One hope of early Courier staffers was that local talent could be recruited, trained, and finally put in command; at the starting pay of $25 per week, the first step has proved rather difficult. While most of the Courier's office workers are Negro, only three of its salaried reporters are. The rest, including Editor Michael S. Lottman '62, former managing editor of the CRIMSON and reporter for the Chicago Daily News, are graduates...
...that activity, Gardner would be quick to concede that the Great Society's gravest problem is not a lack of financing. "The need for money is less acute than the need for new ways to use it," says Gardner. "We vote billions into old channels. If we are going to get the job done, the money should be used to find better ways of doing...
...Gravest Weakness." As for conscription by lottery, a method tried briefly during both World Wars, the draft chief asked: "What would you do if you drew a one-legged man? Those urging a lottery recognize that you can't apply it to the disqualified. You return to a selective service system." But a lottery's "gravest weakness," Hershey contended, is "the substitution of chance for judgment in an area where we need much more wisdom than we have-the proper utilization of our manpower...
...dagger men, though supposedly assigned to teach the police administration techniques, were actually under orders "to engage in counterespionage and counterintelligence"; M.S.U. raked in $25 million in seven years before Premier Ngo Dinh Diem canceled its contract; the university "actually supplied" the Vietnamese "with guns and ammunition." The gravest accusation of all, from the standpoint of academic integrity, was that the university had made "a conscious effort to prepare reports pleasing, or at least palatable" to Diem...