Word: logical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...internationally respected educator for a half century, Alexander Meiklejohn, now steps forward to deny the soundness of their logic. Mciklejohn, a former teacher of Chafee at Brown University, questions the Constitutional right of committees to vindictively inflict punishment on witnesses and insists that in this climate of repression and usurpation of authority citizens not only have the right but the obligation to maintain testimonial silence as they...
...conclusions Father Theodore Purcell drew after 44 months at the packinghouses could have been deduced by anyone above the level of a moron, by simple application of everyday logic. His discovery of the "dual allegiance" is nothing more than a digging up, from the graveyard of the obvious, a concept fossilized into a platitude...
...knew the infighting techniques as well as anybody. But when President Eisenhower promoted Twining to Chief of Staff last June, it was Twining's judgment that the long revolution was over, that the time had come to disband the rearguard and let the Air Force prove the inevitable logic of its position by performance...
Then military logic began to work for Twining. In October 1953, the New Look went to the National Security Council. Treasury Secretary Humphrey said its price tag of $43 billion was too high. The new J.C.S. chairman. Admiral Arthur Radford, once an Air Force foe and target himself, put his finger on the reason: under the hazy foreign-policy directives inherited by the Eisenhower Administration, the J.C.S. simply had to prepare the Army, Navy and Air Force for big wars, little wars, and all kinds of wars to be cut and tailored to the enemy's initiative. And what...
...with broadcasters. Nashville's Banner and Tennessean made front-page announcements that thenceforth they would print radio & TV program listings only in paid advertisements. They were joined by five other newspaper publishers in Oklahoma City and Chico, Calif. The trade journal Editor & Publisher found "a good deal of logic" in their position. Nashville's seven radio & TV stations were standing firm at week's end, confident that public pressure would force the newspapers back into free program listing. Said a Nashville set owner: "I just wish they'd settle it, so we can find out what...