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...White affair also shows the danger to Constitutional separation of powers involved in letting the hectic competition between Congressional committees go unchecked. The sight of committee couriers racing each other to subpoena Presidents and governors of sovereign states is disgusting, but it could have been envisioned from the day Eisenhower said he would not attempt to influence methods of inquiry about Communists in the government. Finally he has indicated his displeasure, and Velde's hasty retreat from his subpoena shows that such Presidential chastisement would have been effective much earlier...
...permitted to participate in a few club functions, and full membership does not come until the junior year. The first year is especially grim. For most new men, added to the discomfort of adjusting to a new way of life are many social restrictions. Meals in the Commons are hectic and crowded, there is no place for fairly large groups of lower classmen to get together informally, and there are few opportunities to meet women...
Even if the drive is not officially extended, solicitors will continue with "clean-up visits to the houses next week. Terry admitted those are "hectic times" for everybody, but hoped that the response would quicken very soon...
...monthly Report, the New York Times's able United Nations correspondent. A. M. Rosenthal. told why. The trouble, wrote Rosenthal, is that TV "is not interested primarily in news but in entertainment," and it requires so much paraphernalia that it forces newspapermen to work in a "hectic, noisy, movie-set atmosphere...
...last week, nervous traders began a deluge of selling in wheat futures. As U.S. farmers got ready to vote on wheat marketing quotas, the traders were hedging the possibility that controls would be voted down, thus automatically cutting Government price supports for wheat nearly in half. In the hectic trading, September futures fell to $1.75 a bu., the lowest price in six years and 60? below the price a year ago. The fears about the voting were unjustified (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, and September futures soon rebounded to $1.88 as flour mills made big buys at the bargain prices...