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...decision to deploy 572 Pershing II and cruise missiles in five West European countries starting late next year. According to Andropov, the Soviets would keep in Europe "only as many missiles as are kept there by Britain and France, and not a single one more." He did not cite any figures, but arms experts interpreted the proposal as an offer to dismantle an estimated 280 SS-4 and SS-5 missiles and reduce the arsenal of SS-20s in Europe to 162, the number of ballistic missiles deployed by France and Britain...
Many professors cite the fact that high salaries in the high-technology industries lure college graduates away from academic life and into the job market as a main reason for the shortage of teaching fellows...
...entire squad expresses unbridled enthusiasm for their Saturday afternoon occupation. They cite a varsity of reasons that attract them to cheering Gill claims "it makes you feel part of the festivities" Ho, who didn't cheer in high school, says "it was something I had always wanted to try." And sophomore Tom Friedman stresses that "cheering has an athletic aspect that makes it a challenge...
This incident, says Professor Seymour Feshbach, chairman of the psychology department at U.C.L.A., occurred at a Los Angeles nursery school. Margaret Mead might have described the scene as a tribal rite of the global village; Marshall McLuhan might cite it as proof that the medium is indeed the message. But to Professor Feshbach as well as to Joan Anderson Wilkins, a researcher on family issues, it was not a symbol but an illustration of something more portentous: television addiction. Those nursery-school students are video junkies...
...other professors cite a problem in the attitude the Faculty takes in recruiting. "Harvard simply assumes you want to go there," says one professor who recently turned Harvard down. "The theory that all their professors are stars--that word was used to me. But that's all bloody nonsense. The assumption is that they are deigning to honor you--that's the tone I got in our negotiations. The whole style of the offer didn't interest...