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...Judiciary Committee's pointed push for evidence, combined with the revelation by its staff that public hearings on the evidence could begin as early as May 1, suggested that the investigators now have a clearer idea of the directions that the inquiry will take. This new focus has followed the committee's receipt of a briefcase containing findings of fact and supporting evidence compiled by the Watergate grand jury that indicted seven former Nixon agents for conspiracy in the coverup...
...section on students' reasons for taking leaves, the 36-page study states that a "common thread" among those deciding to leave is "the personal quest involved in the venture." Seventy-three per cent of those surveyed sought a "clearer direction in life," according to the report...
Harvard still owns its Gulf Oil stock, and Portugal is still in Angola. But last week made it clearer than ever that the occupation of Mass Hall was just a small part of a continuing struggle, a struggle that touches Cambridge and Lisbon as well as Angola, that extends to wherever people fight for control over their own lives and against the vestiges of imperial control. Students here shouldn't forget the Mass Hall occupation, just as they shouldn't forget the battle that went on in Portugal last week and continues in Angola today. Such struggles affect everyone...
...they can take the professed ideals at their noblest and best, but without blinding themselves to the realities they mask, so that the realities begin to show through only gradually, in glimmers, in a way that's painful and impossible to dispute. The first method usually presents a clearer statement. Since its techniques are more direct, more didactic, more immediately biting, the criticisms the playwright presents leap out at the audience. They can't be missed. But when a playwright looks at his society in a sympathetic way, and lets the criticism flow naturally from the interactions of the characters...
...some readers of other Time Inc. publications. Stolley, 45, a former assistant managing editor of LIFE, cautions against instant analogies: "PEOPLE is not a reborn LIFE in reduced size, and it is not the People section of TIME stretched to 50 editorial pages." What PEOPLE actually is should become clearer with each new issue, but Stolley foresees no problem in establishing the magazine's identity: "There is nothing abstract about our name. People are what we are all about...