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Several schools are introducing the concept of mathematical analysis to liberal arts and requiring students to take more science courses. At Wellesley, freshmen and sophomores next fall will be able to take an introductory course in technological studies. The aim is to apply several disciplines to practical problems. Analyzing long-distance telephone services, for instance, students will have to evaluate cost and convenience, study elementary electronics, satellite operations and microwave systems, and examine management practices in order to choose the best company...
...televised speech Monday night, the President admitted that the U.S. "would prefer that the Soviets dismantle SS-18's [their intercontinental ballistic missiles] rather than we build more holes." Since Moscow is unlikely to scrap its SS-18's. Reagan would have done much better to aim at finding a mutual compromise. The SS-18 question is on the START negotiations agenda; Reagan could have emphasized that and put off the MX a while longer, at least long enough to see what else Andropov and Co. might do to better relations...
Saying that a Harvard player roughed the Penn placekicker on the unsuccessful attempt, referee Bob Lynch spotted the ball at the Harvard 11 and let Shulman aim for the uprights again...
...commercials. But politicians with money to spend will always be able to find agencies that will craft noxious ads, and they will be tempted to buy such ads as long as they think nastiness may succeed. Says California's Hart: "Depending on your view of human nature, you aim for a voter's baser instincts or his hopes and aspirations. These days, you find that fewer and fewer people respond to positive messages." Coelho voices hope that the failure of some of the most flagrant ads will cause negative campaigning to decline. Well, maybe, but as Coelho quickly...
Perhaps the most critical effort of all, from the U.S. point of view, is Washington's determination to encourage the building of a new Salvadoran national consensus. The Administration's aim is to give the provisional authorities a chance to seize "the initiative from the F.D.R. and F.M.L.N. by offering opportunities for elements of the extreme left to return to the political mainstream." The U.S. hopes that the Salvadoran government will find ways to involve all major nonguerrilla groups, including the Roman Catholic Church, business, labor and rural peasants in that effort...