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...beyond mere newness. But such an approach can only be a tactical means of implementing the principle, explained by Dulles in a San Francisco speech last week, that freedom itself-especially freedom expressed in economic and social progress and military confidence-is a force that can and will prevail. That principle is the basis of U.S. cold war policy. And the success of that policy, particularly as expressed in burgeoning West Germany, is the reason Nikita Khrushchev wants Berlin...
...charged with excitement, and everybody cheers and shouts and applauds like fury. Well, last night they had something to shout about. Yeomen of the Guard would be a delight on a rainy night in a plague year before an audience of psychopathic dope fiends. Under the conditions that prevail at Agassiz, it is an absolute, downright, unimpeachable, irreproachable, rip-roaring riot...
...meal has been a sacred part of the athletic credo for centuries. As a recent study of the matter concluded, "It has its roots in the superstition and magic of the unrecorded past." At one time men ate powdered lion's teeth to make them strong, and similar practices prevail in many primitive cultures even...
...letter, deprives newcomers of "the right to participate in making the rules under which they must operate." Damning the possible party consequences, the letter added: "No plea for an illusory 'party unity' which surrenders the principle of majority rule in the Senate . . . should be allowed to prevail...
...appears that those members of the Southern clergy who hold that segregation should prevail [Oct. 6] are more responsive to public opinion than to the will of God. Like the politicians who are afraid of losing the support of the citizens of the South, some spiritual leaders seem fearful of being deserted by much of their congregation if they do not blast the integration movement...