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Others predict that the academic recession will foster intellectual dullness on many campuses. As they see it, conservative administrators are likely to cow unorthodox graduate students and young teachers who lack tenure. Those who speak out may be forced out. Still, job insecurity may also curb the intellectual arrogance that afflicts some graduate students. "I've rarely seen such deference from Ph.D. candidates," says Harvard Sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset. "They're becoming obsequious again." For his part, M.I.T. Physicist Brian Schwartz suggests that all graduate school catalogues should bear a new legend: "Warning: graduate education may be hazardous...
...Washington journalist who has just won a Pulitzer Prize for his effort, places the number of dead at between 450 and 500. Describing the murderous mood of the U.S. troops, he writes: "A G.I. was chasing a duck with a knife; others stood around watching a G.I. slaughter a cow with a bayonet. A G.I. with an M-16 rifle fired at two young boys walking along a road. The older of the two-about seven or eight years old-fell over the first to protect him. The G.I. kept on firing until both were dead." Hammer quotes...
...inductee who drifts unprepared into his local board's maw is as hopelessly doomed as the cow who placidly rides the slaughterhouse conveyor belt. There are chances to escape-times when the belt slows down, opportunities for a smart cow to leap off and run away. But unless the potential carcass knows precisely how to seize his chances for freedom, he will join thousands of his fellows at the other end of the abattoir...
...Little Chiang," as he is known on Taiwan, draws such attacks partly because he has long managed to remain a mysterious figure. He went to Mos cow when he was 16, where he joined the Komsomol and studied guerrilla tactics but later broke with Stalin. He rejoined his father in China in 1937, bringing with him his Russian wife Fanina, and from Taiwan has directed guerrilla activities against Red China...
...group will also demand the immediate creation of an Agro-American Studies Department and the termination of all contracts with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. In addition, the farmers will call for the conversion of Memorial Hall into a cow barn...