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Dean Glimp, chairman of Harvard's committee to negotiate new contracts for ROTC, issued a report yesterday denying that the committee would attempt to circumvent the Faculty's resolutions on ROTC.
"There have been rumors that the negotiating committee might attempt to circumvent the Faculty's guidelines regarding credit for courses offered by ROTC units and appointments in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. On the contrary, the committee regards these resolutions as guidelines for its work," the report stated.
Consequently, the Soviets moved to block West Germany's diplomatic and economic penetration into Eastern Europe. At the same time, in a cleverly co-ordinated set of moves, the Soviets have made it far harder for the West Germans at home to keep their own political house in order...
There are indeed ample injustices in all of the disparate rituals through which convention delegates are picked. State primaries, originally intended to circumvent the political manipulations of party leaders at state conventions, are themselves often open to distortion. Some, like Oregon's open primary, are sufficiently broad-based to...
> Against all odds, McCarthy goes on to win the nomination himself, then drafts Humphrey as his running mate (experience counts). To circumvent the constitutional problem raised by having two candidates from the same state, Team Player Humphrey relocates to an apartment over the family drugstore in Huron, S. Dak.