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Britons to the Rescue. Two weeks ago, 122 Americans found themselves stranded for four days at London's Gatwick Airport. The Daedalus Travel Agency in New York, bookers of their charter flight, had failed to provide a plane for the return trip. When the Americans sent a deputation to the U.S. embassy, they were "totally disillusioned," in the words of Ruth Jacobs, a tourist from Queens, N.Y. "The embassy was adamantly opposed to giving us aid or getting us out of there." Eventually Britons came to the rescue. The British Social Service dispensed cash for food. The Grosvenor Hotel...
...reaching sexual maturity earlier than previous generations. Many parents are responding by condoning early dating, and some are even encouraging use of the Pill by girls barely into their teens. That kind of permissiveness can have unhappy consequences, according to Manhattan Psychoanalyst Peter Bios. In the current issue of Daedalus, he insists that youthful behavior need not follow biology, and that "a prolongation rather than an abbreviation of childhood" is imperative...
...safeguarded and reared, and a continuity of values preserved. This is what society is about, and it provides order and sustenance for the vast community of men and women who cannot fly, breathe, or even live in the ego-rarefied air of the master artists and the lone eagles. Daedalus flew but Icarus fell-so it is with Ibsen and his Nora...
Inge S. Hoffmann, Scholar of the Radcliffe Institute and co-author of "De Gaulle as a Political Artist" (Daedalus, Summer 1968), disagreed with the other professors' assessment of the impact of de Gaulle's death...
...Samuelson, a former Harvard Faculty member, was cited by McGeorge Bundy in a recent article in Daedalus as one of those whom Harvard "failed to keep when it could and was never able to win back...