Word: ought
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...York's Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller moved out to the tougher side of the Eisenhower Administration, argued on a TV show that the U.S. ought to resume nuclear testing-presumably on Dec. 31, the date President Eisenhower has set as the deadline for a workable Russian agreement on test inspection. Said Rockefeller: "I think that we cannot afford to fall behind in the advanced techniques of the use of nuclear material. I think those testings could be carried on, for instance, underground, where there would be no fallout." Minnesota Democrat Hubert Humphrey, chairman of the Senate Disarmament Subcommittee, countered...
...roundhouse swing at his archrival, Revlon (sponsors of The $64,000 Question, co-sponsors of The $64,000 Challenge). Businessmen who profited from rigged shows, said Cortney, should be called to account by congressional committees. Their "illgotten gains" should be donated to charity as "conscience money." Businessmen, Cortney concluded, ought to keep their hands off entertainment...
...program is one of the virtually insoluble problems of General Education. The most important difficulty--that there is not the remotest agreement on what, correctly speaking, ought to be taught, is one which is coming into other areas, as the personnel problem has. While the rest of General Education has been received with general approval over the last decade, Nat Sci has not. One of its founders admitted last spring that the program as it stood was a failure...
...enthusiasm for a renewed search for the treasures of Sardis was echoed by A. Henry Detweiler, Cornell professor of Architecture, who promised to furnish a contingent from Ithaca, and by the Bollingen Foundation of New York. The financial burden (the first two expeditions cost $60,000, the forthcoming campaign ought to come closer to $50,000) was shared by Harvard and Cornell with the Foundation giving $20,000 each year for three years if the two colleges raised equal or greater sums...
This legal attitude, says the Anglican committee, is plainly wrong, and "public opinion has outstripped the law. With regard to attempted suicide, the law is not uniformly enforced, and it ought to be repealed or amended." The committee recommends that in addition to abolishing the felony of suicide, a new offense should be written into law "of aiding, abetting or instigating the suicide of another...