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...Richard Russell, a heretofore generally fervent supporter of a strong U.S. position in the world and a close friend of President Johnson's. South Dakota's George McGovern recently added his voice. "We are on a dead-end street," he said, "and ours is a bankrupt approach. We ought to negotiate...
Last week the Boston & Maine dropped 33 runs, thus eliminating all interstate passenger service in Maine. A far sharper curtailment may be in the making at the bankrupt New Haven, whose prime problem is that 42% of its revenues come from passenger service, v. a 7% average for other lines. Its trustees last week announced their intention to sharply cut back close-in commuter service, stranding 7,500 daily passengers, and eventually to discontinue all passenger trains-but they have many legal obstacles to overcome before they can do either. To bail out the New Haven, a group...
Totality is bankrupt because it relieves the Faculty of any responsibility for Gen Ed and would allow students to evade requirements with inappropriate courses. Selectivity would be hard to effect for both political reasons--it would be ticklish business to shunt aside any department's introductory course--and philosophical ones--to exclude some courses and not others would involve establishing criteria for decision which no advocates of the distribution scheme are willing to set forth...
...Earl Warren. Best reading of all was a birthday check for $17,500, raised by the dwindling Socialist faithful. Thomas said he would divvy up the money among his favorite left-wing causes: "It won't last long, because every organization I'm connected with is going bankrupt...
...Cairo, some 200 African and Egyptian students descended on the U.S. embassy and burned down the adjacent, $250,000 John F. Kennedy Memorial Library. Ahmed ben Bella, shaky ruler of a bankrupt Algeria, many of whose people survive only because of U.S. food gifts, pledged "arms and volunteers" to the Congo rebels. So did Red China...