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With his legislative effort sputtering, and with the Negro revolution increasing in its impetus, President Kennedy last week decided, at long last, to appear on national television with a declaration of his own views about the moral issues involved. The decision to deliver the speech came suddenly, during the interval between Wallace's two stands in the doorway at Tuscaloosa. By broadcast time, all was quiet in Tuscaloosa. But that did not matter. As President Kennedy well knew, the civil rights issue would be around for a long while. And by now the President was beginning to feel...
Though the President's active concern for the quality and influence of religious thought has been a major impetus behind the rebuilding of the Divinity School, it has at times caused friction in a Harvard steeped in religious indifference. The most notable example of this friction was the Memorial Church controversy of 1958, in which, after intense pressure from the Faculty, the Corporation recognized the right of non-Christians to be married in the chapel...
Hopefully, the forthcoming booklet will serve as an impetus to further discussion of examination philosophy and policy. The CEP has emphasized that the study has not been undertaken with the intention of making professors conform to any "ideal" standard for examinations, but it does hope that the results of the symposium will be suggestive and informative...
...included. Acreage controls, as the CCC's massive inventories show, are ineffectual. Merely by planting crop rows closer together and dumping on more fertilizer, the farmer can increase his yield per acre. The support price gives him an incentive to do just that. It provides a built-in impetus to production, so that a support system set up to deal with oversupply tends to perpetuate the problem...
...second of three Stillman Lectures, Augustin Cardinal Bea reviewed the development of the spirit of Christian unity and the impetus given to it by the Ecumenical Council Vatican...