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...dealing successfully with this problem derives very largely from the fact that the Arabs believe that the United States is, in the last analysis, dominated by domestic political considerations . . . I can say that it is the determination of this Administration to deal with the problem purely from the standpoint of the best interests of the United States, and to deal on a basis . . . of friendly impartiality...
Pusey cited Harvard's situation as an example of the financial problems confronting most colleges and universities. Although the University is the wealthiest in the country from the standpoint of endowment, he observed that this was not necessarily true in terms of its operating costs. Operating expenses last year came to nearly $42,000,000, while contributions from corporations and corporate foundations during the same period totalled only...
After publication of the LIFE article, Dulles affirmed that he stood by his statements "from the standpoint of their substance...
...that no real contradiction exists; he can only accept the tension of both opposites. "According to the logical conception of truth," he says, "only one of two contraries can be true, but in the reality of life as one lives it they are inseparable. I have occasionally described my standpoint to my friends as the 'narrow ridge.' I wanted by this to express that I did not rest on the broad upland of a system that includes a series of sure statements about the absolute, but on a narrow, rocky ridge between the gulfs, where there is [only...
...Liberals is clearly toward the Tories. The strength of the minority CCF (socialist) and Social Credit Parties has remained fairly constant in the past six months, but the voters' preference for the Tories has risen from 26% in June to 32% today. Most encouraging from the Tory standpoint is the poll's evidence of a 22% increase in Tory popularity in Ontario and a 17% gain in Quebec, good signs that the party is making its greatest headway in the two big provinces where federal election campaigns are lost...