Word: protection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with such rabble-rousing slogans as "War on the Corrupt Rich!" It was a close race, undecided until last week; Jânio's margin was a mere 18,304 votes out of nearly 2,000,000 cast. Promised Jânio in his victory speech: "I will protect and defend the working class and the poor. There will be one weight and one measure...
...austere and impartial figure of popular legend and his own desires. Instead he is a partisan in a relentless battle for power . . . The scientist who is engaged in atomic research for the Government has no stomach for such power struggles-but he cannot avoid becoming involved in them ... To protect his sanity he disavows moral responsibility for the consequences of his work. But does he convince himself...
...consequently, when prices were low. Though operating under a heading of military necessity, such a program amounts to price supports for part of the U.S. mining industry. This year, for example, U.S. producers of lead and zinc were in such serious trouble that they wanted higher tariffs to protect themselves from cheaper foreign metals. President Eisenhower last month rejected the tariff boost, but instead he almost doubled the rate of stockpile buying. In fiscal 1955 stockpiling lead and zinc will cost the U.S. close to $250 million. Furthermore, some $400 million of 1955's $900 million outlay...
...police are not able to protect even the freshmen, for every night several gates are left wide open. Admittedly, they are the most inconvenient possible and require everyone to walk all over the Yard in search of an exit. But if police think that this could discourage those to whom "Vice is Now Become Alamode," they are mistaken. Their efforts will have no more permanent effect than President Dunsters when, according to Professor Morison, he emptied his horn of gunpowder in the middle of the Yard, laid a train, touched it off with a live coal, and "blew the Devil...
Scatter-gun, wholesale accusations are not the way to protect academic freedom. Instead, the universities should fight each case, individually, as it comes up. In the pages of this issue is some record of cases that have been fought by administrations, but many more that have not been. The universities, must realize that the perfect case will never come. There will not be situations in which a man's guilt or innocence is so clear-cut or that a choice is easy. If a university will refuse to fight until it finds conclusive evidence of a man's innocence...