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...week in the face of stormy world events. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, appearing before a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee in an effort to get back some of the $7.1 million cut by the House from his $199.9 million State Department budget, discovered that there was little need to plead. No less a climatologist than Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson was almost shoving money towards him. "At the moment, our future rests upon the shoulders of the diplomatic corps," said Johnson, who last year led an unmerciful attack on the U.S. Information Agency's $1,400,000 request...
...largely because the leading party in the land, in the years immediately following World War II, has beaten the drum for independence and boycotted all elections since 1952. Each year Sylvanus Olympio, 56, head of the Comité de l'Unité Togolaise (C.U.T.), journeyed to Manhattan to plead Togoland's cause before the U.N. He is a graduate of the left-wing-leaning London School of Economics, and Togoland's top businessman. As a result of his boycott, an Assembly was elected without a single member of the opposition represented, and France was able to keep...
...this week by the Christian Century: "By what great shift in sociology, psychology, temperature or radiation are we to account for that clamant coupling of pre-ministerial students which threatens now to turn our dormitories into nurseries, our campuses into playpens, our graduate colleges into preschools? Ordinarily we would plead for no ivory tower, but if the choice is ivory tower or brooder coop, the remoter symbol looks better all the time...
...objection, says the liberal Protestant weekly, is economic. Seminaries find themselves spending money on quarters for married students that might otherwise go to maintenance or faculty improvement. The expense of "such massive swaddling" drove "the distinguished and dignified president of one of our proudest and most prestigious seminaries" to plead with his married students last fall to cut down their rate of reproduction. Some seminarians sign up for married quarters while they are still single. In one important Southern seminary, an administrator queried one such foresighted young man, who admitted he was neither married, engaged nor even particularly interested...
...Medical Bulletin, the state Board of Medical Examiners must consider 50 to 60 cases of addiction or illegal personal use of drugs among doctors every year. Chief excuse offered by errant physicians: "Overwork and fatigue, usually attributed to the size of the practice and to night calls." They also plead such pressures as domestic difficulties and pain of a chronic disease or operation...