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...Government discontinued its 13-year censorship of such mail. "It serves no useful intelligence function," said President Kennedy. Congress, how ever, was not convinced. In 1962 it passed a law requiring the Post Office to hold all incoming "Communist politi cal propaganda" for 20 days, then de stroy it unless the addressee returned a card saying he wanted it. Respectable critics began to note an obvious dan ger: Post Office lists of "approved" addressees might well result in the hounding of innocent individuals, such as scholars and journalists...
...rebels would maintain economic ties with France "because of the natural flow of goods between the two countries and because it would be absurd to de stroy existing markets." But soothing words do not obscure some ultimate goals: the nationalization of Algerian banks, the conversion of European vineyards to Moslem wheat fields, and the expropriation of large, European-owned estates, which will then be parceled out to Moslem farmers...
...maral value of liberty, these pioneeers in American education strove to create educational institutions equipped to fit the American youth for his life as an American citizen. Nor can all the petty, often diverse disquisitions of later day men upon the futility of such effort de stroy its value...
...article, "Mr. Higginson and the Boston Orchestra," which is a review of a book by M. A. DeWolfe Howe '87, "The Boston Symphony Orchestra; an historical sketch," Owen Wister '82 shows a much better sense of the fitness of things than he did in his stroy Philosophy 4, by which he is known, and I fear unfavorably, to most undergraduates. His style is intimate and lively and his enjoyment of the book in question, and of books and music in general so keen and so apparent that we can almost forgive him for his college story...
...Strange Story," by D. Winter, seems to have been rightly named, for it is unreal in the extreme. The author, after leading his readers through a mass of unreality to a tragic climax, leaves off abruptly, offering no clue of any kind to the mystery. The stroy is ineffective largely on this account...