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President Pusey, another speaker reporting on the Council's third world meeting in New Delhi last November, commented that the presence of the Russians "did not inhibit in any serious way" any discussion within the Commission of the Churches on International Affairs, of which he was a chairman...
Judgment at Nuremberg (Roxlom; United Artists). "I do not know the method," wrote Edmund Burke, "of drawing up an indictment against an whole people." The prosecution at the 1946 Nuremberg trials kept Burke's dictum carefully in mind, but such scruples do not inhibit Producer-Director Stanley Kramer (On the Beach) and Scriptwriter Abby Mann, who also wrote the 1959 television play on which this movie is based. Ostensibly, four Nazi judges are on trial. Actually, by vigorous and frequent implication, the German people are on trial, and in a specious process that rivals in travesty the show trials...
...critics, from Washington to such vehemently anti-Communist nations as Nationalist China, fear that in his pursuit of compromise, U Thant may gravely inhibit the U.N.'s role as the "conscience of mankind." They may reckon without U Thant's quiet but nonetheless firm belief that peace cannot be achieved through passive neutralism, which would mean a withdrawal from the battle for peace." Pointedly, he has declared: "Whoever occupies the office of the Secretary-General must be impartial, but not necessarily neutral...
...another daily half-gallon per person is recommended for washing and other sanitation purposes. Although water should be stored in plastic or metal containers-blast might break glass bottles-anything would do in an emergency. The food should be imperishable or long-lasting, and neither salty nor sweet, to inhibit thirst. Says Margaret Moore, nutritionist for the Louisiana Board of Health: "Keep a few canned vegetables you can eat cold, to conserve fuel supply. Decide which canned meats you like cold, remembering saltiness. Pickles will help ease thirst, and canned vegetables are an extra source of liquid...
...Would the College be a wonderfully stimulating and rewarding place when every student at entrance was a potential magna or summa man? Or would a precocious academic careerism tend to corrupt the young and inhibit breadth of interest and the disinterested search for understanding and enrichment? Would academic competitiveness be greatly increased and tensions, anxieties and frustrations grow unbearably, particularly for those able students who, perhaps only because they dared to take a course outside their field or had bad luck with an instructor or two, found themselves