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Nobody wants to end or to impair the merit system, without which modern government could not be conducted. But the merit system was never advocated or defended as an influence (mostly negative) on policymaking or a brake upon change. What Eisenhower's aides are seeking is enough leverage over the permanent establishment to restore to the responsible officials the power to carry out their policies. All reforms have their price, and the price now exacted by the merit system is too high. The price can be reduced without damage to the essentials of the career service...
...Means prerogatives on revenue bills, let the Rules Committee consider a new EPT bill (one had just been conveniently dropped into the House hopper by Connecticut's Antoni Sadlak), and take the new bill directly to the floor for a vote. The course was risky, and failure would impair Joe Martin's leadership-and the Administration's legislative program-from...
...studiedly vague language, the General Assembly authorized the Eighth Army to "insure stability in Korea," and bring about "a unified, independent and democratic government." The vote was 47-5 (the Russian bloc), but India and six other Asian and Arab nations parted company with the U.S., because it "would impair faith in the U.N. if we were to authorize the unifi cation of Korea by force against North Korea after [resisting] North Korea's attempt to unify Korea by force against South Korea." A fortnight ago, President Eisenhower used a somewhat similar argument to dissuade Syngman Rhee from going...
...reply to a set of questions put to her by a correspondent from the Barnard Bulletin, Mrs. McInstosh, president of Barnard College, said, "If the Senate Internal Security Committee did find it necessary to question an individual instructor I do not believe that such questioning would impair our traditional liberties if it was properly handled." However, she believes "Colleges and universities should themselves take the responsibility for seeing that their teaching is truly free and not dictated by any outside authority..Administrators and boards of trustees should accept the primary responsibility for establishing academic freedom...
...deafness is increasing, he believes, as a result of the haphazard use of antibiotics in colds. If there is a middle-ear infection, the drugs may mask it, and then part of the ear fills up with fluid anyway. If this is not drained, it may solidify and impair hearing. The only solution, said Dr. Theobald, is to puncture the eardrum and remove the substance...