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...willingness to act on important issues behind the strike. It approved a resolution whose effect will be to abolish ROTC, and in so doing has properly transferred responsibility for this matter back to the Corporation. On the question of a black studies program, the astounding tactless decision to defer a vote on Afro's demands until next week should not obscure the Faculty's approval of the spirit of those demands. Tuesday's meeting is likely to approve the Afro position--unless classroom fracases have by then rendered the Faculty unwilling to consider anything but law and order. Faculty members...
...faculty first passed motions to allow the CUI's two graduate and one undergraduate members to sit in on the meeting and to defer any binding action on Soc Rel 148-9 until next week...
...after graduation, as well as $40-$50 monthly allowances to all cadets in the advanced program. It also allows students to enlist in ROTC as late as their junior year of college. Supporters of this change argued that ROTC units would attract more potential career officers if students could defer their decision until after their second year...
...without damaging their arteries. As yet, no such drug is in sight. That is why heart researchers are turning toward the notion of Government-imposed diet control, which they rather euphemistically call "environmental engineering." "It is futile," says Framingham's Kannel, "to try to get the public to defer something now for future benefit." No matter how frightening the statistics, the public will go on getting 40% of its calories from fats that are almost 100% saturated. "Government," Kannel suggests, "may have to engage in a little environmental engineering to make sensible diet an automatic, unconscious part of everyday...
...decisions that the new Administration cannot defer is the selection of people to run and represent the Government. Last week Richard Nixon made several appointments: >Charles W. Yost, 61, an author and retired career diplomat, became the surprise choice as Ambassador to the United Nations. Yost is a Democrat, but not the sort of prominent party man that Nixon had been seeking to give his Administration a bipartisan touch. Hubert Humphrey, Eugene McCarthy and Sargent Shriver all turned down the assignment, which traditionally has had more prestige-and problems-than power. Shriver had seemed the likeliest prospect, but is understood...