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Nevertheless, despite these shortcomings, basic training is fundamentally a good system for initiating civilians to military life, but for the Army not to take advantage of its men's intelligence seems a waste of time and money. By raising the--I hate to use the word--intellectual standards of basic training, the Army could reduce the time now necessary to teach the raw fundamentals and at the same time increase the amount of training offered in the six month period...
Majority Rule. The AEC's dissent punctuated one of the strangest chapters in modern U.S. diplomacy, a chapter that brought important modifications of longstanding U.S. nuclear policy with hardly a word of public debate. It began in 1957-58, when the Russians whipped up a new storm of propaganda against nuclear tests as a hazard to health and wholesome genetics. The Communists got special plaudits from neutralists in Asia and Africa, from U.S. pacifists and idealists, when the U.S.S.R. announced in March 1958 that it was suspending tests. At one point, Ambassador to the U.N. Henry Cabot Lodge warned...
...minority report. The committee conclusion: If, after consideration, a Lutheran group finds social dancing "in accord with its objectives and to the best Christian interests of its members ... it may permit the same under careful supervision and guidance, always striving toward the goal that whatsoever we do in word or deed we do all to the glory of God and in the name of the Lord Jesus...
Requiem for a Nun is no requiem, and its "nun" is a 17th century word for whore. It was adapted by Novelist William Faulkner from his 1951 sequel to his 1930s shocker, Sanctuary. The story is a further look at Temple Drake (Ruth Ford), the Sanctuary college girl who landed in a Memphis brothel-and loved it. In Requiem, Temple has become a guilt-ridden, respectable wife, grappling for salvation. Boston critics agreed that it promised spiritual significance, but found it dramatically static. The Catholic Pilot's George E. Ryan commended it for "daring to grapple with the question...
...with plenty of experience behind him. A onetime Chelmsford, Mass, lumber dealer, Mason went to the FHA in 1954 when it was reeling from the windfall profits scandals, promised that "we're going to live in a goldfish bowl from now on." He was as good as his word. Mason cleaned up the FHA, went on to speed up and expand its loan program, started a housing program for old folks, worked hard for urban renewal and better quality houses for home buyers...