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...idea remain cautious about their visions of what a Center can accomplish. Effective arguments could be built on the expectation that a school in International Studies at Harvard might make significant contributions to political science. But primary justification for the Center is being drawn instead from the manifest need to correct the currently deplorable situation, in which the University's valuable resources are being squandered through lack of emphasis and coherent organization...
...manifest right of any of these nations to take such decisions and actions, it is likewise our right, if our judgment so dictates, to dissent. We believe these actions to have been taken in error. For we do not accept the use of force as a wise or proper instrument for the settlement of international disputes...
...This manifest ambition has caused Republicans as well as Democrats to be somewhat restive about their young David. But when Whittier's impending nomination for the governorship caused a split in the state GOP early this summer, considerations of practicality resolved the issue. Furcolo, too, was caught in a party fight recently, but the division turned out to be native only to a political off-year. Many liberal Democrats, nonetheless, still harbor resentment toward Furcolo for his conduct before a 1954 A.D.A. dinner when he told that organization to disband as a detriment to the candidacy of the Democrats...
Even as Dulles flew back to the U.S. proclaiming that the conference had made "solid gains," the French and British threw the case into the U.N. The two asked the Security Council to hold an urgent debate of Egypt's "unilateral" act as a "manifest threat to international peace and security...
Brennan's religion was the only reason for his appointment, the fourth professor, who wished to remain anonymous, declared. He called the choice of Brennan, who is a Catholic, "a manifest attempt to solve the religious question, since there are no Catholics on the Court." There are "so many political possibilities in this," he added...