Word: problems
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Last week, invited to Capitol Hill for dinner with a dozen or so Democratic Senators. Acheson listened restlessly while his tablemates complained about the difficulty of getting their programs accepted by the Administration. Finally, one Senator asked: "Mr. Acheson, what would you do if you were faced with the problem that faces us? Eisenhower will veto everything we want." Replied Dean Acheson: "I would refuse to do anything. I would refuse to confirm even one second lieutenant until those bastards give...
Longevity Complicates Problem...
...problem has been complicated by the fact that people live longer nowadays. In the past, it was expected that a man would not live much past 70, but today youngsters of eighty and ninety have not yet lost their mental keeness. Many emeritus professors still lead full and active lives. If they are not studying or lecturing, they are often traveling or catching up on all the reading they missed while busy teaching. Because of the high cost of scientic experiment, not all retiring professors can be fully accommodated. However, unlike the old soldier, the old scholar refuses to fade...
Since the suffocation of academic life is only one aspect of the military and political squeeze which France has put on Algeria, the solution to the student problem rests upon the result of the Algerian war. To M. Aitchalal's mind, there are only two possibilities. The total extermination of the Algerian people, of whom 500,000 mainly civilians, have already been killed, or truce and negotiations, based on France's public recognition of the independence and equality of Algeria...
...felt, produce a sense of moral responsibility. As two rebels with a cause, they saw no lack of issues for the American student. Far from wanting idealistic American undergraduates to grab shotguns and set sail for Algeria, they could only ask repeatedly why we remained inert before such a problem as integration. With this issue at stake, how, M. Aitchalal asked, can a campus be torn over the question of making a jacket and tie compulsory at dinner...