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Last week a faculty committee sat down with the trustees for a series of conferences, to thrash out the whole sorry affair. Caught in the middle, with little apparent relish for his dictatorial license, President Bevis addressed a rhetorical question to both sides: "Do you want...
...Nonstop War. Novelist Marquand doesn't help his hero much either. He lets Goodwin thrash around in the required course the general never studied at West Point: the facts of life. But Marquand is an old hand at arranging the facts so as to get a few things off his own chest, and Goodwin's uniform does not long conceal the fact that he is just a new variant of an old Marquand hero: the successful U.S. male, vaguely but persistently beset by discontent, his existence complicated by a nonstop war between the sexes...
...convicted leaders of the Communist Party were also given at least a few more weeks to thrash around, untrammeled. Although Party Boss Eugene Dennis was already in jail for contempt of Congress, the other ten Reds convicted in Judge Medina's court of violating the Smith Act have been free on appeal bail for almost a year. Last week Supreme Court Justice Jackson turned down a Government request that the ten be jailed immediately as dangerous to the public welfare...
What are the questions modern men should ask, and then thrash out? Last week, Philosopher Adler announced that, after working on it for seven years, he had "an instrument" to help them decide...
Last year the services attempted to end their fights at a pair of high-level conferences, with civilian and military leaders meeting at Key West in March and Newport in December to try and thrash out their differences. These meetings soon degenerated into horse-trading sessions, in which the Joint Chiefs worked out just enough of their problems to enable them to submit a budget to the President. The Navy finally got its long-desired 58,000 ton carrier, more or less as part of a deal in which the Air Force took over all strategic bombing and the Army...