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Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English and a staunch defender of the lecture system, feels that another weakness of the lecture system is that it is the "star system" at the moment and that each lecturer acts too much on his own. He believes that if lectures met together periodically to exchange views they might help one another develop better...
...condemned another, backing Gaspar G. Bacon '08 by a 7-1 margin over Mayor Curley (who subsequently won) and completely reversing a former pro-Roosevelt stand. The turnabout on the New Deal, many said, was long overdue; for the College should never have drifted away from its traditionally staunch, Republican stand. Cambridge was, after all, not really the place for Democrats...
...search of money and sympathy, the two arrived at Manila, where they got plenty of sympathy. Neutralism, declared President Diosdado Macapagal, "is the gateway to Communism." He found it incomprehensible, he said, that the U.S. in Laos was giving support to neutralists like Souvanna Phouma and withholding aid from staunch anti-Communists like his guests...
...ideas, not the adventurer, not the innovator (although Dodds mentions this part of the job parenthetically). Indeed, the accomplishments of Nathan Pusey's tenure, by no means unimpressive, are not startling new departures, but courageous and competent responses: the amazing repair of the Divinity School, the staunch defense of academic freedom when threatened by McCarthyism and the NDEA; holding the Ivy League together during trying times; launching and completing a gigantic capital funds drive when Harvard and higher education needed the shot in the arm: "building high" when urban crowdedness demanded it; alerting this university and others to the dangers...
...picked by Charles de Gaulle to break the S.A.O. is General Michel Fourquet, 47, a slight, dark-haired air force officer who was famed under the nom de guerre of Colonel Gori in World War II, when he led the Free French Lorraine bomber group. He has been a staunch Gaullist ever since. Fourquet was an air force brigadier in Algeria a year ago at the time of the Generals Revolt. To make clear his loyalty, he painted a huge cross of Lorraine on his personal aircraft. Shuttling busily between Oran and Algiers in the fortnight since he was appointed...