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...Dean, the Dean of the College, John U. Monro. In practice, however, Monro has tended to subordinate, and has acted more often as a free agent troubleshooting around the Harvard administration at will. The need for such a man is great, but it is apparent only after a rather tortuous line of reasoning has been followed. The theory runs this way: Faculty men have a predilection, as scholars, for research. Pusey, in fact, has stated that he feels most scholars are fully as loyal to their discipline as to their college. Only a man who sympathized with this orientation toward...
Along the Road. Behind the comparatively mild reaction to the tests lie the lessons of experience. The tortuous route from the first U.S. atomic blast at Alamogordo, N. Mex., to the latest at Christmas Island stretches over nearly 17 years; it includes nearly 200 atomic explosions, about 100 megatons of nuclear energy set free in the atmosphere, 353 fruitless diplomatic test-ban meetings. The men who traveled that road were filled with doubts about their eventual destination, and at every crossroads they argued bitterly over which turn to take. Much of the history of atomic testing has been forgotten...
...growing fondness for pizazz. So high was public enthusiasm at the Geneva showings that both Saab and Volvo are confidently looking forward to their biggest spring orders ever. Neither new car, however, will go on sale in the U.S. until it has been exhaustively tested on Sweden's tortuous roads. Says Volvo's Engellau: "If we didn't keep up the Swedish reputation for quality, we'd be dead ducks...
...following Stacton's tortuous meditations has its rare rewards. Without 400 pages of cutlass work, the invading Spanish are contemptuously summed up: "They knew nothing of navigation. That they left to the Portuguese. When there was something to shoot, they shot it. When there was nothing to shoot, they prayed." The author admires the doomed Mayas, the soft, proud, cruel, devious fanciers of blood sacrifices. It is a measure of his skill that he persuades the reader to admire them...
Scranton's road to his party's nomination for Governor was as tortuous, if not as rough, as Dilworth's. Last month Scranton said that he was content to run for re-election to the House, wanting to get more experience there, would consider the governorship only if he had support from all factions of the party and if his nomination would stop the bickering. Last week he got it, after a good deal of intraparty warfare from which he personally remained aloof...