Word: vis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...asked him to make a decision. This shows the structural limitation inherent in the COH. The Masters feel fierce competition among thesemlves as representatives of the different Houses. They evaluate each proposed social reform in terms of how it will affect their own House's "prestige" or "position" vis-a-vis the other Houses. Since each proposal which comes before the Committee is bound to "lower" some Houses and "elevate" others, no issue stands a chance of generating the kind of unity necessary for passage...
...inferior position of the Masters vis-a-vis the administration was illustrated in the HUC-COH debate on seating. Master Smithies asked us why we wanted seating on the Committee. We replied that we wanted to influence the important decisions: funding a new athletic building, constructing the underpass, tenth house, tuition hikes, investment and endowment decisions. Smithies was incredulous; "We're as interested as you are in changing these decisions, but you know they just can't be changed by us, that's all. Those decisions are made in the high-level stratosphere of the administration...
When Richard Nixon's entourage vis ited the White House, one campaign aide expressed surprise at how "cellularized" Lyndon Johnson's staff is. Nixon intends to change that. The group of personal assistants he began to assemble last week is being billed as a select cadre of versatile generalists, As one aide put it: "We don't want specific people locked into specific boxes...
...Catholic faith, put his name to a birth-control petition nearly 40 years ago. This modest act was dictated by conscience rather than defiance. With Dr. Gregory Pincus and Dr. M. C. Chang, Rock went on to develop the Pill, the first really effective contraceptive device. As Pope Paul VIs encyclical made clear last summer, the Catholic hierarchy is not yet prepared to abandon a position that it has maintained for 1,770 years. When it does, John Rock's courage and example will have played a significant part in this profound reform...
...Secretary General of the United Nations, Mr. U Thant, is reported to have said, in connection with Vietnam, that in war, the first casuality is truth. The Nigerian civil war is today another painful reminder of this phenomenon. Claims of a special Ibo Jewishness and Catholic Christianity vis a vis other Nigerian groups, and counter-claims of an Ibo plot to dominate others, have cluttered the scene...