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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world of Nineteen-Eighty-Four (TIME, June 20). But the news often brings evidence that Orwell is less a satirist-prophet than a chronicler of the present. In Finland last week, on the tenth anniversary of the country's invasion by Soviet Russia, the Communist Party spoke through Professor Vladimir Kemenov, a visiting. Russian "cultural" delegate. Said Kemenov in Helsinki's Communist Työkansan Sanomat...
When engineers let their imaginations go-in a properly professional manner-they are apt to think about rockets, whose limit is above the sky. Last week a Manhattan meeting of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers heard Professor Hsue-shen Tsien, Chinese-born rocket expert from Caltech, on the prospects in rocketeering. Most of Dr. Tsien's paper was technical, e.g., how to keep the walls of combustion chambers from melting. But his conclusion was clear and startling: present-day technology is capable of building a transcontinental rocket ship...
This is a limitation of freedom that is completely out of line with the Harvard approach to dealing with conflicts between the wishes of the individual and the University. Professors, for instance, are free to do what they wish without threat of University discipline except under the direst of circumstances. Thus a professor who was convicted of murder was not fired or otherwise disciplined by the University...
...College Social Relations Department, under the restraining hand of Professor Gordon W. Allport, has limited its zealots to sensible and reasonable procedures. Last week one misguided undergraduate got a quantity of polls from his victims in envelopes that were carefully numbered under the stamps, although the poll was termed "anonymous" by its author. Professor Allport has burned these self-incriminating documents-some students had expressed Communist views-and has sent letters of apology to all recipients...
Letters of apology were sent yesterday by Professor Gordon W. Allport, chairman of the Social Relations Department, to several hundred recipients of a poll taken by an undergraduate. The polls were later ordered to be burned...