Word: plea
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...Plea. Even in Germany, many doubted Strauss's denial that he was after missile and air training bases in Spain. (His story was that all he wanted was a few supply and medical depots.) Pointing out that the 1954 treaty, which forbids West Germany to manufacture atomic, bacteriological or chemical weapons, applies only to "the territory of the Federal Republic," the London Times unhappily noted: "Indeed, the West Germans could if they wished manufacture rockets and atomic warheads in Spain." Others were quick to remember the 1920s, when Germany's democratic Weimar Republic secretly accepted a Soviet offer...
Harvard's crusty President (1909-33) Abbott Lawrence Lowell was a Ph.D. who developed an early aversion to the Ph.D. factory system. In a famed plea that scholars should be judged by deeds and not by degrees, he wrote: "We have developed into a mass production of mediocrity." A few years before retiring, Lowell began agitating for a more creative path into teaching ("to entice and fructify imagination"). It turned into Harvard's freewheeling Society of Fellows-a unique experiment in U.S. education...
...President could hardly have been surprised that another big question at his news conference dealt with the state of U.S. defenses; his morning Washington Post headlined the plea of Air Force General Thomas Power, chief of the Strategic Air Command, for a round-the-clock SAC airborne alert to cover the years (1961-63) when the U.S. will lag in missile production...
...Titan had finally fired successfully, but the Atlas "could fly as far, hit as accurately and carry as much weight as the Titan. The only difference is that the Atlas is 1½ years ahead and is doing it now." Backing up the Strategic Air Command's plea for an airborne SAC alert, he said: "Any person without bias-that is, not trying to sell missiles or balance the budget-has got to assume that the President is taking a dangerous, dangerous gamble with our national survival. I don't think he has the right...
Along with Allport in the plea, which was stimulated by the recent outbreaks of religious vandalism, were Dr. Otto Klineberg, professor of Psychology at Columbia, and Dr. Robin M. Williams, Jr., professor of Sociology at Cornell...