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Since then, he has had some association with Harvard nearly every week; he is frequently called to speak and to moderate discussions at the Law School Forum and similar events. There is a special art, Capp says, in handling a Harvard audience. It must be treated with "affectionate contempt." A Harvard audience has to be abused, in order to quiet it down," he adds...
...President of the U.S. grinned, joined heartily in renditions of Sweet Adeline and My Old Kentucky Home that rattled the ballroom chandeliers in Washington's staid Willard Hotel. But Dwight Eisenhower could hardly have been more serious when he finally stood up to speak to some 200 guests at a Republican National Committee dinner last week. Firmly and flatly, he placed the price of his endorsement of 1958 Republican congressional candidates at support for the three Administration programs he deemed "imperative" in meeting the challenge of Communism. The three: defense reorganization, mutual security and reciprocal trade...
...there was any doubt in anybody's mind that the great Kremlin apparat has ganged up to brand Tito once again as a dangerous heretic, that doubt vanished last week. The Chinese Communists, last to speak, piled in, throwing the roughest punches aimed at Tito since Stalin's Cominform war of 1948. Yugoslavia's latest program for "separate roads to socialism," said Peking's People's Daily, is "out-and-out revisionism"-a Communist dirty word for any deviation from Moscow's line-and "viciously slanders the socialist camp." Its "evolutionary views," said...
...Russians will probably have difficulty conversing with the Americans they meet, for according to Gail Warshofsky '59, president of the Radcliffe S.G.A., only two of the six speak English...
...most useful knowledge to anybody." As an example to the youths, Sarah cited the case of a Frenchman of "about three score," then in England, "who has learned in [only] a year's time to read all the English authors, and both to write and speak English: his name [Sarah happens to mention] is Voltaire...