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...formal commitment that the United States will not give nuclear weapons to any nation or alliance which does not now possess them...
That he does not do so is rather a mark of President Pusey's intelligence and of his appreciation of the purposes student-edited and written newspapers serve in a complex university than of his acknowledgment that Crimson editors possess any constitutional right to say whatever comes to mind. College newspapers like the Crimson, like the Michigan Daily, the Cornell Daily Sun, and the Penn State Collegian exist precisely because the tradition of an independent student daily exists on these campuses. They are sustained by administrative respect for these traditions and the educational values they represent...
...State Department's Loy Henderson insisted, is "political sensitivity-without it a Ph.D. is useless. With it a high school student is invaluable." Messrs. Kennan, Reischauer and Galbraith will not win the cold war by setting fine tables. But they have personable wives, and. above all, they possess political sensitivity to the highest degree...
...discovers that, in life, they were monsters of depravity who not only had licentious relations with each other and with other servants in the household, but even in some mysterious and horrible way perverted the children. She discovers, or thinks she discovers, that they have come back to possess the children. Why? Hell only knows. Worse yet, she discovers, or thinks she discovers, that the children know they have come back, that in fact the dear little boy and girl who kiss her 30 times a day and never say a naughty word are lewdly, furtively delighted to have them...
...continuing by using me, for actually, it's not I who is writing but you, you are speaking through me, trying to see things from my point of view, to imagine what I could know that you don't know, furnishing me the information which you possess and which would be out of my reach." When the three pages worth of story finally end on page 351, even violence and tragedy come as relief...