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...ever-present problem of student power was expressed quite efficiently in "Power to Participate" [March 15]. I could not agree more with the University of Pennsylvania's system of student participation in major decisions within the school. Bravo for its deep concern and action toward better development of our nation's future leaders...
...Bravo for the honesty and courage evidenced by Columnist Howard K. Smith [March 1]. It is about time that the whole journalistic profession stood back and took a long look at what they have done to our nation. One searches daily, in vain, through the mass of publications and news broadcasts for one word that would reassure the common man that all the colored people are not Stokely Carmichaels, that all our youth are not chick-en-livered draft dodgers, that not all the people have lost faith in our President and in his honest efforts to do the best...
...Bravo! Maybe some of those 80-hour-a-week fathers will see that killing themselves to earn enough money to "give the kids everything" is in effect shortchanging them. If your excellent article doesn't scare the pants off them, maybe it will scare them into wearing them...
...without condescension. By treating it as legitimate music, giving it as much attention and respect as the other two works, they saved the Tschaikovsky from the disaster that is inevitable when it is played as camp. The famous Allegro con grazia in five-four was captivating rather than sentimental (bravo 'cellos!), and the rousing march-like third movement was rousing instead of vulgar...
Fighting for Life. Elaborate engineering works built over decades were disdainfully brushed aside by the rampaging Rio Grande-which is known to Mexicans as Rio Bravo, the Wild River. Flicking away a heavy, 200-ft. weir at the junction of a main emergency floodway and a small subordinate channel, the 44.3-ft. tide poured into Mercedes and Harlingen, where a Spanish-speaking radio station ominously warned: "Get the lame, blind and old people to high land." But there is no high land in Harlingen (pop. 41,100), a citrus-market city 36 ft. above sea level, and the pitifully inadequate...