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...realize NSA's imperfections," said Elizabeth H. Parker yesterday, "but we do believe that something must be done throughout the nation to encourage and stimulate student analysis of student concerns. We feel that NSA can and does have a real and vital role...
KARACHI, Pakistan, Dec. 8--President Eisenhower tomorrow heads for India, keystone of his 11-nation tour. On the way he plans to spend five hours in Afghanistan, a country with a colder climate, both literally and figuratively, than he encountered here in the warm embrace of Pakistan's capital...
...years and a sometime author (The Unfinished Story of Alger Hiss), did most of the writing. Husky, broad-shouldered Gene Gleason did most of the reportorial digging. They worked together on the 1956 slum-clearance expose, collaborated again this year on an extracurricular writing assignment for the Nation. Titled "The Shame of New York," it was a 62-page rehash of previous Cook-Gleason investigations that added little new to the encyclopedia of New York's seamy side. The Nation piece earned Cook and Gleason an invitation to Open...
Midway in the television show, Moderator Susskind turned to Fred Cook with a question that he had been primed by a Nation pressagent to ask: "Did you in your research [on the 1956 slum-clearance series] ever encounter a lack of cooperation, or bribes?" Yes indeed, said Cook. Thereupon he proceeded to tell how, during the investigations, a "high city official" had offered Gleason $75 to $100 a week for laying off. "We can put your wives on the payroll," the city official supposedly said to Gleason, "and you won't have to do anything for it, just stop...
Under its present editor, Donald Tyerman, 51, who took Crowther's place when Crowther became managing director in 1956, the Economist cleaves to the course set by Founder Wilson. "If," said the Economist a century ago, "we know that a nation is capable of enduring continuous discussion, we know that it is capable of practicing, with equanimity, continuous tolerance." Continuous-and highly intelligent-discussion is the Economist's contribution to Britain and to journalism...