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...support, indirect costs are negligible and may in fact be difficult to identify. In significant magnitudes, however, Federal grants can make a university poorer rather than richer by building up unreimbursed costs. More than one Faculty at Harvard has found it necessary to limit its participation in desirable programs lest their indirect costs drain away its unrestricted income...
Pope John's encyclical displays "dated rather than eternal wisdom," Niebuhr believes, in opposing birth control and ignoring the fast pace of population increase. But he refrains from laboring the point, "lest the professional anti-Catholics take too much courage. They regard the Roman church as a monster. It is really a very impressive survival from medievalism, which has managed to apply its ancient wisdom to the comfort of a harassed generation in a nuclear and technical...
...months elapsed before the mere planning of the rajah's cremation began-a reasonably brief period, since in Bali, bodies of the dead have been known to lie in state for as long as 20 years before burning. No expense was spared, lest Ide Anak Agung Ngurah Agung's dissatisfied-spirit return to haunt his family. The final cremation budget: $110,000. This included the price of a trip to far off Singapore by the rajah's eldest son; tinsel, gilded paper and assorted, brightly colored gewgaws required for the crematory tower were not available in import...
...over Algeria and Tunisia. Courteously, Rusk bowed for now to his allies' insistent demands. But as a matter of fact, he, too. has some firm dates in mind. He thinks some parleying with Moscow must begin before the Oct. 17 gathering of the XXII Party Congress in Moscow, lest Khrushchev take advantage of the occasion to make some outrageous further demands he would have a hard time backing away from later...
...Council to condemn France, after De Gaulle's scornful disregard of it, only convinces De Gaulle that the U.S., for all its misgivings, can only support the French position. He seems equally sure that the U.S. will head off any General Assembly debate on the base at Bizerte lest it give an opportunity to Cuba's Fidel Castro, backed by the Soviet Union, to sound off about the U.S. naval base at Guantánamo...