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...basic principle of academic freedom which the trustees and administration have supported in the past week. Although they made the point very clear that they did not think the Whig-Cliosophic Society should have invited Alger Hiss to speak, they stated with equal strength that they would not succumb to alumni pressures by interfering with a student group's right to have a free hand in inviting speakers...
...spite of their backgrounds, the children quickly succumb to the school's discipline. Each child feels himself at home as a member of a cottage family. But more important, says Director Thomas, "the children must know where they stand, that the sun will rise tomorrow, that food will be on the table, that someone will love them, but that they may get spanked if they go beyond certain simple limits...
Lyndon Johnson also worked out a leisurely Senate schedule-noon to 6 p.m., five days a week-so that Senators might not succumb to the irritability that comes with fatigue. The gas bill's backers presented their case during the first three days of debate, then gave over the floor to the opponents. Johnson privately warned his side not to interrupt the opponents with too many questions but, rather, to let them talk themselves out. The result of Johnson's managerial tactics was an orderly and uncommonly high-quality discussion of the gas bill's issues...
Will Japan ever wholly succumb to Western ballet and give up its traditional dancing? Not likely, thinks another recent visitor, Ballerina Alexandra Danilova. "Our dance is like flower, open out this way," she says, assisting her Russian accent by opening out her fists. Then, closing them again, she added: "Japanese dance is like flower, closing up this...
...Joseph) Patrick Lannan, 50, whose enthusiasm for the poets' corner has been obscured until now by his zest for cornering corporate stocks (TIME July 25). Yet for years, Lannan has wooed the muse with unpublished verse and unpublicized donations to Poetry. When he learned that the magazine might succumb to an unpaid printer's bill he determined to give it all the benefits of high-pressure, big-business promotion. "I could have just given them $25,000 " he explained, "but that would have been the easy...