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...formed last spring to make recommendations on the recruitment and retention of Faculty) has been examining Faculty residential patterns very closely and could recommend some long-range solution like University subsidized housing in Cambridge. In the mean-time, Richard T. Gill, Master of Leverett, has been setting off a chunk of the dining room each Monday noon for Senior Faculty and students to mingle at every opportunity and has been pressing both groups to show...
HAVING vindicated himself by making a statement of his own artistic humility, he attacks. He accuses the entire world of believing in its own artifices and of vesting them with pompous officialdom. Steinberg contrasts the substantiality of a painted chunk of rich brown earth and a simple tree, with the frenzied intricacy of man's nervous world, by juxtaposing the two scenes on cliffs separated by a narrow but precipitous chasm...
...Mephisto, who is intent on denying either major challenger a majority of the electoral vote. He could then swap his support for a "covenant"-as he calls it-with the candidate who agrees to advance his policies. Besides the predictable Southern vote, Wallace hopes to get a big chunk of the Goldwater Republican and dissident Democratic vote in the North. Historically, the odds are against his achieving the goal he seeks; only twice has an election been deadlocked and decided by the U.S. House of Representatives. The last: in 1824, when John Quincy Adams beat Andrew Jackson only after Kentucky...
...familiar bureaucracy for studying domestic problems. A separate committee (which includes the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, the head of the Library of Congress and the director of the National Science Foundation) will advise the President on the Commission's findings. And the Commission, is having a huge chunk of its work done by outside experts--the ACLS group. The ACLS, Bryant says, intends that its report "have a life of its own," regardless of how it is treated by Johnson's Commission and Committee...
...overtook Britain's empire, the sun has been much slower to set on its military system. With 429,000 men in uniform, its navy steaming regularly through three oceans, tommies quartered at volatile fronts and its airplanes based from Cornwall to Hong Kong, Britain still supports a sizable chunk of the West's defense capability. A succession of budgetary cutbacks, including four in the past two years, has stretched its forces ever thinner. But, as recently as last summer, Whitehall's defense planners referred to the notion of pulling back from east of Suez as "long term...