Word: needlessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...continue egg rationing indefinitely, saying it was impossible to produce more than the 1½ eggs per month each Swiss had been allotted during the war. Duttweiler promptly made a deal to import several million eggs, sold them unrationed through his stores, and made the government look awful silly-needless to say, egg rationing was . . . canceled...
...Needless Resentments. But what of the other non-Communist powers in Asia -the neutralists, the hesitant? It is another principle of old-fashioned diplomacy to win as many friends as you can to your side, and to deny as many as you can to the enemy. Asians like Burma's Premier U Nu want to be friendly with the West, but refuse to join a military pact. Rather than abandon them, or berate them, or wheedle them, the U.S. should seek a separate relationship that involves neither slight to them nor undue soliciting of their favor...
...easy commitments is all that the Communists presently want of France and India: to stand aside. Too often U.S. requests to young and sensitive nations, or to old and proud nations, have been crowded with demands and pledges that have significance only in domestic American politics-and thereby cause needless refusals and resentments...
...students: clarify the implications of exchange status to "visitors"; make it easier for regular foreign students to readjust under the quota system. Indeed, according to Oscar Handlin, associate professor of History, the "whole quota system is unreasonable." Such requirements as the double quota need of section 245 "impose needless hardship on students," he feels...
...Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Professor (of physics) Victor F. Weisskopf, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, says: "Whereas there are now numerically fewer refusals of visas, there are considerably fewer applications, as many foreign scientists react against the needless indignities and delays accompanying them. Rather than become involved in long, drawn-out procedures . . . [they show] complete reluctance to visit the U.S. for meetings...