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...jampacked session on Navy Pier, four experts led by Vaccinventor Jonas Salk pronounced a favorable verdict. One year and 40 million inoculations after the initial flurry of accidents, controversy and fumbling, the vaccine has been vindicated. Said Dr. Salk in an unwontedly cautious, indirect statement: "Inferences that the theoretical considerations were unsound or were not applicable . . . seem not to have been supported by time...
Much more serious is the fact that a number of Harvard Clubs, especially but not exclusively those in the South, maintain prejudices that cannot help compromising the reputation and principles of the University. The Washington Club admitted its first Negro several years ago only after much internal wrangling and indirect pressure from Cambridge. Several Clubs in the Deep South, such as the one at Atlanta, still steadfastly refuse to admit the qualified Negro alumni in their area...
...field representatives, sophomores and juniors might well benefit from thought and talk about their programs for the year to come. If the Administrative Board required students to meet with their tutors, rather than to list courses, it would make its objectives clear to students unaccustomed to administrators' subtle and indirect strategems. Lazy students and lazy tutors would continue to evade the requirement, but to the majority it would be clear what was wanted. About the only thing the board would lose is income from $10 lateness fines...
...this action. He ridiculed Stalin's vaunted "military" genius and accused him of fleeing the Kremlin during the defense of Moscow. Evidently it was not possible for the party leaders to speak so directly to the Russian people without risking a public convulsion. Thus they chose the indirect approach, but the ugly story in all its sordid detail was there to be read by every Russian who could remember back...
Only one item caused the M.P.s to raise their voices: the 20% tax that Harris wants to impose on the Canadian advertising revenues of foreign, i.e., U.S., publications. Opposition members echoed the widespread complaints of Canadian newspapers that the tax would be an indirect threat to press freedom. One telling point was scored by Carl Nickle, a Calgary Tory, who is publisher of the Daily Oil Bulletin and other trade journals of Canada's prosperous oil industry. Nickle explained that he stood to benefit personally from restrictions on foreign periodicals ("Potentially, there would be lessened competition for my publications...