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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Energy, formally recommended to the President that the U.S. continue tests of small-yield nuclear weapons underground and of nuclear weapons in outer space, e.g., antiaircraft or future antimissile-missile warheads to defend U.S. cities. The Communists, said Gore, are "insincere." And the U.S., if it keeps up its present line at Geneva, is in danger of getting "mousetrapped...
...remains in the grip of unreasoning and undiscriminating fear of all kinds of nuclear tests. The voice of this fear seems to have carried the day against the voice of reason and fact. Our Government seems to believe that it has a popular mandate to stop nuclear tests. The present muddle of public opinion was caused by bad leadership, or confused leadership, or no leadership...
...audacious new seven-year plan (1959-65) that he unrolled in Moscow set targets so high that it pledges Russia to top U.S. production by "about" 1970. By that time, boasted Nikita in "theses" outlining the plan that his Central Committee will present to the 21st Communist Party Congress next January, the Soviet people "will be assured the world's highest standard of living." By 1965, cried Khrushchev, the Communist bloc countries will bt producing more than half the world's output...
According to Sewall, the Scholars of the House program is part of the present tendency in American education to encourage and foster independence and initiative in college students. The program is based on the theory that, for those students with exceptional ability and maturity, "nothing short of a maximum challenge will evoke a maximum response...
Secondly, there is a strong suspicion that the Clubs could never, realistically, be destroyed. Greek letter fraternities were outlawed 100 years ago, and the present Clubs simply sprang up in their place. And of course there is the crass but major consideration that much of the Universitiy's financial support comes from wealthy Club alumni who might be reluctant to feed the hand that bites them...