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...jury trial had been requested by the owners of an apartment building on the edge of the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library. Harvard went to court late last year to compel the owners to sell to the University under a ten-year old option agreement...
...aware that it cannot defeat Communist China, the great power reserve behind the Ho regime, without precipitating all-out nuclear war. And China, even before it fell into the present state of confusion, seemed to know that the U.S. is militarily unbeatable. This rational realization will eventually compel both sides to a political settlement...
...quality act of 1967 would accelerate research and expand matching grants to states; federal spending would increase from $35.5 million this year to $84 million in the fiscal year beginning July 1. But Johnson sees federal regulation as the most effective immediate antidote for pollution. His bill would compel fuel producers to register all additives such as tetraethyllead- used to boost gasoline octane count- with the Department of Health, Education and Welfare so that their potentially noxious effects could be studied. HEW would be given authority to designate industries that contribute heavily to pollution, and in each case would determine...
Eighty-eight per cent of the Cliffies said that the Selective Service should not compel universities to compute rank-in-class for them. At Harvard, that was the opinion of 72 per cent...
Freezing enthusiasts argue that their proposals for reanimating the dead conform to Christian teachings, which stress the sacredness of life; they even contend that refusal to be frozen might be construed as suicide. They concede that their program might compel some drastic rethinking in theology, ethics and law. For instance, in law, says Ettinger, "a new kind of manslaughter will appear, namely, the failure to freeze" -that is, somebody might pull the plug on the capsule. Similarly, says Ettinger, theologians might have to revise their concepts of the nature of the soul. There is no agreement, for instance, even...