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...first week of the strike, Calkins talked about dissent and ROTC and all the other issues for two straight nights on television. He ate breakfast with students in the Houses and told them about ROTC. When he saw posters in the Yard giving some students' version of what he said, Calkins trotted over to the CRIMSOM to type out a reply and explain why the poster version was a distortion...
...Life? with an earnest lyric gift. At times he captures the bubble-like transiency of youth with touching Gallic elan ("Who wrote 'I love you' on a cigarette paper and then smoked it? Who picked a flower and put it in a glass of water? Who ate a vanilla ice on September 14, 1966, at twenty-five minutes to midnight, thinking that it was an eternal ice-cream cone, an eternal ice, an eternal yellow-white flavour?"). He is also adept at playing those "In" games French readers love, the sounding of literary resonances from Pascal to Robbe...
...before the occupation of University Hall, three hundred alumni and their wives filed into Burr B for a Return-to-Harvard speech by George Wlad on student disillusionment and its relation to world politics. In the Leverett dining room where the alumni ate with Master Gill, SDS posters foretold of a meeting that night...
Though problems of poverty and illiteracy still abound, the army-backed government has succeeded in containing Brazil's worst economic enemy, inflation, which previously ate up wages before they could be spent. Now, tough monetary policies have cut the inflationary rate from 87% in 1964 to an almost bearable 24% last year, and the situation continues to improve...
Fried or Boiled. Fourteen patients ate a breakfast containing 31 oz. of fat. One day, they got this unappetizing meal without onions, and their blood-borne protection against clotting promptly dropped. Another day, the breakfast was enhanced by the addition of 2 oz. of fried onions. And after that, despite the extra fat used in frying, their levels of anticlotting factors rose instead of falling. The other eight patients were tested with boiled onions, with much the same result...