Word: viewpoints
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...some, the vote meant that the philosophy which shapes the relations between General Education and science at Harvard was complete and satisfactory after 14 years of development. Others found it disturbing that one viewpoint could satisfy so many Faculty members at once. These fears have come home to roost: the last few years have shown that there is a deep divergence of motive among the science departments involved in General Education...
...spectacle of Urban League officials, politicians, and other groups, welcoming voluntarily-deported Southern Negroes while thousands of jobless, poorly-housed Northern Negroes look helplessly on, is distressing. Because these newcomers have accepted designation as transportable commodities in exchange for immediate material relief, they represent surrender to the segregationist viewpoint as well as economic competition for the Northern Negro...
Ethics aside, U.S. involvement is also alarming from a military viewpoint. The Chinese and Russians can hardly react favorably to increasing American military personnel. Indeed, military aid to North Vietnam from Communist bloc countries has grown considerably in the past few months and the Chinese have already made threatening noises. The geography of South Vietnam makes it rather easy for guerillas in the South to receive military reinforcement from the North. The only way then to win the war conclusively would be to eliminate these supply lines. And this would mean fighting in North Vietnam, which could lead...
...which Vermont's internationalist Republican Senator George Aiken led opposition to the President's request to buy 25-year bonds, insisting instead on a three-year loan. The adopted compromise (which Aiken agreed to) permits the President to do either. Hero of the occasion, from the Administration viewpoint, was none other than Republican Senate Leader Everett Dirksen, who brushed aside charges by conservative Republicans that the compromise amounted to a "surrender" to the President. In an impassioned argument (Rhode Island's Democratic Senator John Pastore called it "one of the finest speeches ever delivered in the Senate...
...claims to represent about 40% of the nation's farmers, warmly admires Freeman, although he is the Secretary's archfoe, wants looser controls for the farmer. Says Shuman: "Secretary Freeman is a very personable man and a very hard worker. He is an excellent salesman of his viewpoint...