Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...could accomplish, but almost everyone agreed that Ike had staffed it with earnest and judicially minded men. ¶ Commission chairman: former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stanley F. Reed, 72, who retired last February. Kentuckian Reed concurred in the Supreme Court school-desegregation decision of 1954, wrote the majority opinion that outlawed the Southern white primary. Southerners could take comfort, however, from Reed's reputation as the court's most conservative member during his latter years on the bench. Predicted Democrat Reed: "I'm sure we'll have plenty of trouble." ¶ Vice chairman: Michigan State President...
...worse blunders and survived. But Khrushchev, as yet, was no Stalin. Where Stalin, because of his absolute command of the secret police, was able to rule through terror, Khrushchev still depends on the support of the Communist Party. To retain his power, Khrushchev must still cultivate the good opinion of a majority of the members of the Central Committee. Even more important, Russia today is not the prewar Russia of Stalin. No longer a peasant nation, the U.S.S.R. now has 6,000,000 citizens with advanced or specialized education. The unwashed, untaught proletarians of a generation ago are the sophisticated...
...opinion of physicians, most of whom are men, micromastia (abnormal smallness of the breasts) is neither a very serious nor a very common complaint, but a great many U.S. women seem agitated about it, some to the point of severe neurosis. In San Francisco last week, the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery was divided over the desirability of a drastic remedy: surgery to pad out the breasts, using either body fat or a spongelike synthetic...
...club merger issue is another topic on which student discussion should be encouraged. The debate has become clouded by secrecy proceedings in the channels supposedly working on a solution, If the Administration refuses to make its views public, there is little that students can do. But student opinion should insist that the Student Council discuss the question openly...
...purpose is to create public opinion, to recruit crusaders to preach our humane gospel, to oppose legislation such as this recent pound bill in Massachusetts. In-fighting and politicking...