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On the first program of the series, Shipyard Worker Roland Allen told how one day he was inside a ship's fuel tank, welding a lid, when he found that the lid's bolts, which he had tightened with his fingers because he had forgotten his wrench, would...
Iran's survival therefore depended directly on a U.S. handout. President Eisenhower, pleased at the turn of events in Iran, was yet aware that they were also going to play hob with his attempt to cut down foreign spending. The State Department tentatively decided that the best it could...
Dodds stated, "The purpose of the proposed council is to strengthen the role of the humanities in the university as the preserver of tradition, the recorders and defenders of the values by which men live, the repository of the experience and knowledge of great cultures and of the behavior of...
The Proper Function. The whole ideal of the university is rooted deep in Western civilization-older than parliaments, older than the modern state itself-and over the centuries it has assumed many functions. It has been a refuge for scholars, a treasure house of facts, an incubator of new ideas...
In contrast with his first lecture, in which he stressed the problem of an American depression as being more serious than the threat of a Russian attack, the Republican junior senator from Vermont emphasized the atom bomb as a preserver of peace, although he insisted that it should not be...