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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rogers' rising importance has never impressed his youngest child Doug, 11. One day Nixon called, and the boy answered the phone. In a little while the President himself called, and Doug again answered. Said Rogers later: "I want you to remember this occasion because it will mean a lot to you some day." Asked Doug: "Did you ever meet Mickey Mantle...
Back from a ten-week tour of Eastern Europe, the New York Times's former Moscow Correspondent Harrison Salisbury reported last week that a comparable intellectual fever of unease was raging in nearly every one of Russia's European satellites. Reported Salisbury: "This does not mean that the literate spokesmen of these countries reject socialism or a socialist society. For most of them this is still the ideal. But they want a socialism founded on democracy, morality, principles and concern...
When a minister explains the meaning of atonement. Life has its sinner respond: "You mean that Christ took the rap for me?" Explains Dr. Gockel: "You have to meet the pagan where he is." Dr. Gockel allows none of his characters except the fallen to smoke, drink, or dance too close. (His definition of too close: "without space showing between the two bodies.") "But we never preach," he says. "We simply let the value of the Christian message demonstrate itself...
Happy in the United States, they still correspond with home, but letters are few and widely spaced. Parents sometimes say the opposite of what they feel, and often adopt codes so they can tell their sons at Harvard what is really going on in Hungary. "Your friends" means "America;" "red ink" means "the truth;" "winter coat" means "changes;" "he's resting" means "he's in prison;" "the Square" may mean "secret police...
...much for his feelings, but what of his abilities? What has the traditional training done for him as a potential investigator? The emerging Ph.D. is not what we mean by an educated man, a man who combines wide-ranging learning with an attitude of simplicity and vividness, and who commingles good taste with an excited curiosity...