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...center of the room, finds David's uniform, and takes his medals from the pockets, proudly holding them up for you. He fought in the Revolution under Zapata, Villa, and Carranza--all three--"for the experience. He wanted to try out everything." And he has first-hand accounts that contradict the history books. But David does not have papers to prove that he is a veteran of the Revolution, and so the government will not grant him a pension. "People give us things. But truly it is a hard way to live, very hard...
...withdraw and that William Shockley be "disinvited" from the Law School forum on race, I.Q. differences, and genetics tentatively scheduled for Oct. 26 (see Travis Dungan story of Oct. 16). SDS bases its argument on the fact that William Shockley's overtly racist (and, agreeably, totally disgusting) views directly contradict SDS' way of thinking. However, nobody has the right to silence free expression--especially when those views which are expressed can be publicly debated. Therefore, in the interest of free speech, William Shockley must be allowed to speak...
...simultaneously. Once, when he took his two daughters on a vacation in Greece, he spent most of the time in his hotel room reading. He likes to prepare a new script while actually shooting another, even if the two are totally different in mood. "A film maker needs to contradict himself," he maintains. "Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me, for instance, was a reaction to the sadness of Two English Girls...
...repeated denials of personal complicity in the Watergate crimes. Yet his answer was puzzling because he said that he had listened to only two of the controversial tapes (Cox is seeking nine tapes), which would seem to be an inadequate base for his generalization that none of the tapes contradict his position...
...honesty of mind without overwhelming talent. My first encounter with Science at Harvard, for example, came during my first and pretty nearly my last bridge game there. It came a few weeks after the assistant dean's explanation, which it seemed to call into question, if not to contradict. The bridge game was in Thayer South, a dormitory which is the past has often housed many pre-medical students, and this may account for the fact that there was an experiment going on when I came in, with 20 or 25 people standing around watching its progress or if they...