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...Canopus Institution (See-Eye) the students are shackled by more than sightlessness. Dr. August, the director, is an icy administrator who thinks the blind really are a different breed, not inhuman, perhaps, but difficult wards of the sighted. What he can least abide is the merest evidence that the blind can also love. The boys and the girls are taught in the same classrooms but they may not associate. A passed note conceived in puppy love is enough to bring down severe punishment. A stolen kiss, a harmless rendezvous, may result in being "shipped," and the likelihood that no other...
Joseph Stalin is an historic figure; or at least he once was an historic figure. The more recent version of Nikita Khrushchev maintains that Stalin was not only unworthy of being historic, but also of meriting the merest existence. In support of his theory, the new Soviet leader has sent busy little men scurrying about Russia removing busts, portraits, biographies, and pictures of the departed Stalin. As a result, the man who once dominated every museum, bookstore, and subway station is now ceasing to have existed...
...Under No Circumstances." Among the most striking evidences of a feet-on-the-ground Republican posture was the general willingness to face reality The merest handful of Republican leaders still clung to the idea that Dwight Eisenhower might run again for President. Said Louisiana's National Committeeman John Minor Wisdom: "I would rather see a sick Eisenhower than a well Democrat in the White House." Crooned Illinois Senator Everett Dirksen: "'Duty' is the shiny iridescent word the President learned at West Point. The President knows and will know where his duty lies." To Ev Dirksen...
...York Herald Tribune's COLUMNIST ROSCOE DRUMMOND: DEAR Mr. President: Don't give us what we want-if you have the merest, lingering, flickering doubt that the Soviets are offering more the shadow than the substance of a safer world...
...ARMY'S counsel is easily the smoothest performer, and perhaps the ablest lawyer, in the McCarthy-Army hearings. By the merest tilt of his ample nose, Joseph Nye Welch conveys to millions of televiewers his utter disdain or disbelief; with a gentle pressure of fingertips on his lips or an amused 'sparkle in his eye, he semaphores an attack that will bruise Roy Cohn or disconcert Joe McCarthy...