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...Rome is told in terms that should be familiar to everyone who has seen a Hitler and a Mussolini rise to power with the support of the multitudes. Unlike modern precursors and advocates of totalitarianism, the Gracchi, Marius, Mark Antony and Julius Caesar had no great desire to overturn republican institutions. But they were pushed along the road to dictatorship by the fecklessness of the opposition...
...Hutchins is trying to overturn American education. Aren't you glad? [He also] is trying to revolutionize the modern world, and when a great big handsome president of a great big handsome university goes revolutionary, it is time to sit up and take notice. [He] is proposing a little island of socialism in a capitalistic country. ... A university, he says, is a 'consecrated community' [to] seek the salvation of men's minds. [Hutchins] wants to free professors from the pressure to pursue mink coats for their wives, or for somebody else's wives, and assure...
...Navy Bureau-type tank lighter was in trouble. She appeared to have a tendency to dive . . . was taking considerable water aboard. She stopped several times and members of the crew could be seen manning hand pumps. . . . Once when under way . . . it appeared that the lighter was going to overturn . . . the coxswain had left the pilot house and was steering the vessel from the rail" (obviously preparing for a quick getaway if she foundered...
Walker postdated his ban to Feb. 28, and counsel for Esquire hastily laid plans for suit this week to overturn "a far-reaching, arbitrary, capricious decision by which one man sets himself up to decide what is in the public welfare." Esquire Editor Arnold Gingrich broadly hinted of group pressure on Catholic Mr. Walker. Said he: "[The Postmaster General] possibly had a commitment to carry out somebody else's wishes." From Catholic Bishop John Francis Noll (of Fort Wayne, Ind.), as chairman of the National Organization for Decent Literature, came a statement: "Esquire not even on our disapproved list...
...floor, substitute pay-as-you-go reduced to its simplest terms, in a modified version of the Ruml plan. Sense as well as strategy was on their side, for many a disgusted Democrat would not vote for the committee bill. The possibility was not remote that the House might overturn its no-longer-august tax-making committee...