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...lead article in the current Advocate, "War Trial: Malmedy," seems strangely out of place in what is by rights a literary magazine. It is of topical interest, fitting in with what seems to be the Advocate trend started with "The Jew at Harvard" and continued last month by "The Club System: Pro and Con," but one wonders where this going afield on the part of the Advocate editors will lead...
...book reviews continue on their consistent good level again this month. Leonard Friedman's criticism of Cybernetics makes a well-put case for work in the social sciences against the mechanical brain. Checking the balance sheet, the current issut is a better than average Advocate...
...absence of snakes in Ireland," writes a young professor in the current Scientific American, "is the direct outcome of the Pleistocene geography of the British Isles...
...price of its upright vacuum cleaner (new price: $44.95) by such changes as a wood-and-metal for an all-metal handle. G.E. was about to bring out a new dishwasher that would not require permanent plumbing fixtures, thus abolishing installation costs running to $125 on current models. G.E. had also eliminated a soaking gadget on a new-model automatic washing machine, thereby saving the buyer $70 (price: $299.50). After two years of experiments and a $2,500,000 outlay for development, Bendix Home Appliances, Inc. introduced a completely new automatic washing machine for $179.95-$70 under its cheapest...
...only one way to assure a solution of the problem. University administrators, from assistant deans and department chairmen up through university presidents, must be prepared to show the greatest integrity and personal courage to protect the freedom of their teachers. President James Phinney Baxter of Williams is exemplary among current administrators: he has withstood extreme alumni pressure in protecting a teacher's right at the height of a crucial drive for endowment--the weakest spot of a private school today...