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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Standing in the sun in the White House rose garden, about 100 delegates to the 1957 National Council of the League of Women Voters waited to hear some customary words of greeting from the President of the U.S. But Ike, having read earlier the women's statement of principles, e.g., in favor of international economic development, suddenly decided that "this looks like a swell time" to say some things of weight...
...Ambassador Richards read his comeback orders, Washington flashed a new order to the Sixth Fleet. From the Pentagon to Fleet Commander Charles Randall Brown went the word: Mission accomplished; withdraw to the Central Mediterranean. Within hours "Cat" Brown and some 30 of his warships-including the giant carrier Forrestal-had pivoted hard west and were headed for Italian waters, where they will join in NATO exercises this week...
...Justice needed, it was efficient administration. Some of the cases in the files when Brownell took over had been hanging around for a full generation. Field offices were supposed to turn in progress reports only once a year-and even then there was little reason to believe that anyone read them. Brownell instituted an elaborate IBM index system to tabulate reports-required monthly-so that Washington can now keep close track of every case at every stage of the legal game. Brownell himself reads the reports on all important cases and investigations, pencils notes in the margins, fires off brief...
Critics have tried to proselytize Orwell's shade, I think, because there is not much else they can do with him. His work does not lend itself to criticism. His prose style is better read than read about; there are few meanings in his novels beyond what he consciously put there; and aware of his limitations, he seldom ventured beyond them...
...extremely disappointing to read that Radcliffe membership in Harvard organizations had been rejected by the Student Council on such seemingly minor, or at best, ill-defined grounds. Needless to say, the present policy on membership discriminates against Radcliffe students who want to be an active part of Harvard activities, let alone those girls who would like to join activities where girls have previously not been allowed...