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...best student is the one who will push himself, and Harvard must provide a framework within which students find encouragement for this sort of activity. Increased requirements and prodding only retard meaningful intellectual development. A reading list and a sheaf of bluebooks cannot produce an educated...
Exhaustive Author Jones counts no fewer than 33 operations (plus endless Xray, radium and diathermy treatments) over the next 16 years. One of the more unusual operations: Freud had himself sterilized (by tying off the major sperm ducts) on the chance that a changed hormone production might retard the growth of the cancer. There is no evidence that it had any such effect...
...Force All the Way?" By week's end the South was moving on to consider what next. Would the 101st Airborne at Little Rock advance integration or retard it? "Little Rock," thought one Negro leader in border-state Missouri, "has put a great number of people, both white and Negro, to thinking. Many consciences have been affected by the sadness of the story, and these consciences will help crystallize action." A Charleston, S.C. moderate disagreed: "Those who believed that integration could be accomplished gradually and peacefully are now convinced that Eisenhower will have to use force...
...Bank & Trust Co. entered a mild dissent, warned that the growing population will produce as many problems as props for the economy. Said Senior Vice President James Neville Land, 62, in the bank's weekly newsletter: "Our rising population is creating pressures on natural resources which tend to retard further increases in material wellbeing. We must dig deeper oil wells and exploit less productive veins of coal and go farther afield for water supplies, all of which is a drag on prosperity...
...floor about the size of the federal budget, and we have been seeking ways to cut the cost of Government. By terminating or curtailing Government business-type activities that rightfully belong to private enterprise, we can reduce Government costs. And yet it is proposed by this section to retard and obstruct such a program...