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...Civil Rights Commission remains one of the potentially strongest features of the hard-fought rights bill. Its power to investigate, inform, and initiate legislative suggestions in the field of civil rights can prove a more effective weapon against intolerance and organized bigotry than the legal sanctions recently obtained...
There are also problems of India's own making. From the start, the second five-year plan was badly administered. New projects popped up like toadstools, and for months half a dozen uncoordinated ministries bought "plan equipment" without bothering to inform the Finance Ministry what they were buying or how much they were spending. Though India has explored less than 20% of its mineral resources, Indian politicians resisted importation of foreign geologists or engineers, arguing that "India must save its resources for itself...
...three times the President of the Council announced at the opening of debate that no comments should be covered by the CRIMSON or the Radcliffe News. On the club merger discussions, dormitory representatives were specifically instructed not to inform their constituents about the discussion. The Council was not asked to vote on the decision to close the meeting (Ordinarily, Radcliffe Council meetings are open to the public and the press, and representatives are expected to return to their dorms with a report of the meeting...
Perhaps the most heartening item in the President's speech was his recognition of the problem of deficient scientific education. If Americans, despite the President's apparent unwillingness to inform them, sense the need for a concentrated national effort, their concern will find expression in public school emphasis on science and technology. And our hopes of overtaking the Russians ultimately rest on confidence in our ability to match their numerical production of scientists with enough better...
...impact of real-life truthfulness Compulsion does have, often very impressively. It recapitulates just what happened, and how, and why; it impales conscious and unconscious, willing and unwilling behavior. There are dozens of moments in the play with a power to inform, or shock, or dismay, that wholly shrivel mere theatrical make-believe; and as Artie and Judd, Roddy McDowall and, even more, Dean Stockwell, give brilliant performances. But the dozens of moments are not cumulative. Except as a history of a master-and-slave relationship, of an Artie who, devoid of normal feeling, must subsist on diseased sensation...