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...last statement lies Agar's real assessment of the "price" of American union; the fact that we must sacrifice ideals for realities to stay alive and united. His book also shows that "obstruction, evasion, and well-nigh intolerable slowness" are also necessary concomitants of the American political system. But lest the conditions he adds a reminder that "no matter how high one puts the price of federal union, it is small compared to the price which other continents have paid for disunion, and for the little national states in which parties of principle can live (or more often...
Adams won the inter-House boxing championship at the Blockhouse last nigh, but for most of the 800 spectators, the big match was Puritan Phil Isenberg's technical knock out of Marcel Rocca...
...president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, saw the same danger. "Every group is pressing on Washington to get more, more, more," said Steinkraus at a Cincinnati luncheon . . . "If we keep on this spending spree at the rate we are going . . . our tax burden will become well-nigh intolerable." The nation, he added, is "very near that point which economists refer to as the 'peril point...
...warn, with all the solemnity at my command," he said, "that building hydrogen bombs does not promise positive security for the United States; it only promises the negative result of averting, for a few months or years, well-nigh certain catastrophe . . . We are plunged into a truly terrible arms race." His proposal: 1) broadcast the story of U.S. motives and ideals behind the Iron Curtain by boosting the "Whisper of America" to a real, full-throated Voice of America; 2) offer $10 billion a year-which is two-thirds of the U.S. arms budget-for five years, to develop...
...will be hard enough to find a new coach under any policy, for Valpey has expressed by his departure what every sane coach must feel about Harvard. It will be well nigh impossible to collect a new coaching staff unless the University--the Corporation, the Overseers, the Alumni, and even the President--gives a fast, sure answer to the question posed by Arthur Valpey...