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...compared with these other University courses, the academic deficiencies in the ROTC curriculum become glaringly apparent. In the place of ideas, the services offer only masses of fact. Granted, the memorization of these facts in many cases requires as much time each weeks as other courses, but even the staunchest advocates of an ROTC program do not claim that the military courses contribute much toward a student's intellectual growth...
...word church (from Greek kyriake, kyriakon, the Lord's house, from kyriakos, concerning a master or lord, from kyrios, master), we might forgivably maintain that the British House of Lords is as churchy an institution as St. Peter's in Rome, a proposition that even the staunchest peers would hesitate to defend...
Colorado's Senator Edwin Johnson, one of the staunchest advocates in Congress of CBS color, recently swung to RCA, wrote Board Chairman David Sarnoff: "Your efforts in devising a compatible television system will long be remembered as a magnificent achievement of science . . . There may be those who may desire to drag their feet at this point. Please do not allow them to slow you down. Please keep up the steam...
...rapidly rusting links with South America are an example of how even the staunchest of friendships can die of neglect. Ever since the Rio de Janiero pact of 1947, American foreign policy strategists have been too engrossed in Europe and Asia to bother with the continent beneath them. As a result, a half-dozen anti-American rulers have moved into the erstwhile Good Neighborhood, and an active hate-America campaign is under...
Massachusetts politicians, however, differentiate sharply between the racial groups making up the state's Catholic population. Most numerous are the Irish (750,000 or more), who are also the staunchest Democrats. Republicans have had the most success with the increasingly important Italians (300,000), but Democratic Governor Paul Dever has been working hard to mend his Italian fences...