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...hours spent listening to the Council represent only one of the many headaches which Rudolph must endure to earn his $16,000 yearly salary. If the street patterns of Cambridge were planned at all, they were planned by a disciple of Jonathan Edwards bent on bequeathing a tangled hell to latter-day Cantabrigians. The streets are often narrow, and they careen into each other at odd angles, forming the squares which dot the map, and clog the traffic. Besides residents and students, floods of commuters from neighboring cities--such as Somerville and Watertown--use the streets on their...
...rebellious students, but it spread with ominous speed through the ranks of France's workers, creating a tempestuous alliance that often before has had explosive consequences. The situation was serious enough to cause the Premier of France, Georges Pompidou, to declare on nationwide television that the rebels were bent on "destroying the nation and the very foundations of our free society." It became grave enough so that Charles de Gaulle, in what must have been one of the most humiliating moments of his career, cut short a visit to Rumania and returned home to face the greatest challenge...
...convulsion was part carnival, part anarchist spree, increasingly spurred on by Communists-but, more than anything, it was a spontaneous spark of national temper. Rebellious students, struggling only two weeks ago to prepare for the exams that would determine their place in French society, bent their energies to completely paralyzing France's universities and tying up many lower schools as well. Inspired by the students' example and glad of the chance to vent their own grievances, striking workers seized scores of factories in the worst epidemic of wildcat work stoppages since the days of Leon Blum...
...strength of its reputation. Two false starts in a trial heat would put Bob Hayes out of a 100-yd. race even if there were no doubt that he could win the final running backwards. Why do rules mean something else in crew? Would these rules be bent as far as they were for Harvard if the boat in question was from Columbia or Brown? Or would those pious friends of Harvard rowing keep their mouths shut...
This intellectual ferment clearly reaches far beyond Vietnam. The practical problem of the war has triggered discussions of a more philosophical bent...