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...National Student Association has advanced the worthy propositions that "the student press should be free from all types of direct or indirect financial pressure, reprisal or threat thereof from student government groups, university or college faculty, or administrative authorities..." and that the press be free "to present articles concerning controversial matters and to comments freely providing a forum for free expression...
...subsequently appeared that being at the University of Chicago then, or at sea, was more or less one and the same thing. The architectural magnificence of the Robie House still escapes me. Like Quasimodo, it is imposing but grotesque. I think the master's most beautiful creation, though indirect and not Architectonic, is his granddaughter Anne Baxter, the movie star...
...Fawzi's plan had turned the meeting into an old-fashioned Arab love feast. ("You could practically smell the camel roasting," cracked one U.S. newshen.) At the end of the session, Lebanese Foreign Minister Charles Malik, who only a week ago was vigorously denouncing the U.A.R. for indirect aggression, impetuously enfolded Fawzi in a bearlike embrace. And two days later, when it came time for formal presentation of the Arab resolution to the Assembly, the job was done by the Sudan's Foreign Minister, Mohammed Mahgoub, whose country has spent most of its brief independent life fighting...
...there was the firm reference to "early withdrawal of foreign troops"-a phrase which, to their distress, was missing from the Norwegian resolution. In the renewal of the Arab League pledges of noninterference in one another's affairs, there was a sop to U.S. and British concern over indirect aggression...
...process began when Dwight Eisenhower, going beyond mere denunciation of "indirect aggression," advanced positive economic and political proposals. Scarcely had Ike finished speaking, when the Soviet Union gingerly followed the U.S. lead. Explained one U.S. diplomat: "The Soviets are washed up in the Security Council. They know they've got to woo the General Assembly to get anywhere in the U.N., and they have wised up to the fact that sweet reasonableness may get them farther...