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...said that yesterday's meeting was successful. "It was beneficial to all of us," Gardiner said, "and it was friendly and worthwhile." Stewart W. Kemp '69, one of the five students at the meeting, said that the administrators were "very cooperative," and that the previous conflict "was just a breakdown in communication...
...precise breakdown of the new class by test scores, secondary schools, and geographical distribution has not yet been made. But in "overall terms," one official said, the class of '72 is the brightest yet at Harvard. "There are more 800's than ever before...
...problems, and indeed, outline more specific proposals for getting the United States out of Vietnam. The recent departure of his two chief press aides, complaining that McCarthy was not addressing all the issues, along with the impending defection of advisor-speechwriter Richard Goodwin hint at the beginning of the breakdown of that rare but genial coalition of fairly radical anti-war students, ADA liberals, and Texophobes who had joined to support McCarthy in New Hampshire...
...state-and local-court level it is hard to add judges. Last week New York's State Judicial Conference despairingly begged the legislature for 125 new judges. "There are areas of this state," said a conference report, "in which calendar delay is reaching such alarming proportions that a breakdown in the administration of justice is conceivable." But similar requests have been made in each of the past eight years with little result. Reason: Democrats and Republicans can never agree on how many of the new jobs each party should...
Their womenfolk walk the cove trails without fear of rape, though perhaps not immune to seduction at early ages, and they don't depend on LSD or pot to send them. You hardly ever hear of an ulcer or a nervous breakdown in the hills. The only air pollution problem is the smell of wood smoke on a frosty day. I don't believe I've heard a word about draft dodging or antiwar demonstrations in the mountains. Honor, manhood and pride mean a lot to the hill people. They are living in the coves...