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Administration officials deny that accusation. They contend that the Soviets have proliferated land-based warheads beyond any level justified by the legitimate needs of self-defense. Those warheads are now so numerous, so powerful and so accurate that they raise the specter of a pre-emptive strike against the U.S. The Soviets' monstrous ICBMs have given them a nearly 3-to-l advantage over the U.S. in "throw weight"-the cumulative power to "throw" megatons of death and destruction at the other nation. That excessive throw weight on the Soviet side of the scales has upset the strategic balance...
Finally, the College should reexamine its overall method of housing assignment. Some contend that the formula used to calculate housing space favors the River Houses by failing to consider that those Houses usually have living rooms while Quad suites often do not. Others are upset because they deliberately opted for Quad houses to get singles, and found themselves living in either reconstituted common rooms or what officials politely call "ec-doubles"--single rooms into which two students have been squeezed. And we find it dismaying that many houses hold rooms vacant for months on end for "faculty guests," while undergraduates...
...opinion, without fear of reprimand or censorship, is sacred. But, in the University, of which all others in English America are limitations, I would hope for some prompt, emphatic, and responsible disavowals and rejoinders from someone besides the Gay Students Association and peckerwoods like me. I would contend that our society's survival and other interests would be better served by the toleration or even encouragement of homosexuality and any other mode of recreational sex that discharges libidinal energies without occasioning procreation. Suffice that it would be regrettable if an unchallenged utterance by someone whose title suggests that he ought...
...managers are officially independent dealers for Southwestern Earning all their money from commission, the students have to pay all transportation and room and board expenses themselves. Southwestern officials maintain, however, that the company's basic principle is to let students work for themselves "as independent businessmen and women." They contend that the company has followed this principle ever since it was established three years after the end of the Civil War. In the economically devastated South, "young men trying to make their way through college, no longer had family plantations fo fall upon," says James Simpson. South-western's public...
...part because the Federal Reserve is not providing enough money to the banks. Over the past month the money supply has been growing at an annual rate of 5.6%, which is at the upper end of the Reserve Board's target range of 2.5% to 5.5%. The critics contend that the targets must be raised if the economy is to recover fully...