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...Dean Ford has recommended that consoles be installed in the Harvard and Radcliffe Houses, and selected freshman dorms, for unsponsored use. Frederick Mosteller, professor of Mathematical Statistics and the committee's chairman, points out "if you start a thing like this, there'll probably soon be more of a demand for it." To date, there has been little demand from students for access to computers, but the departments have independently been requesting funds from the Faculty for hardware, software, or both...
...vast majority of private employers require their workers to retire no later than age 65, supposedly to enjoy the sunset years of life in carefree leisure. Many firms now offer optional retirement at 62 or 60 (some demand it), or even as early as 50. Is this good? "No," said Manhattan's Dr. Irving S. Wright at last week's Houston meeting of the American Medical Association. Relatively few retired men are able to turn a former hobby or avocation into a new vocation and, in effect, start a new career to fill their lives. For the majority...
...Demand for Demolition. This change in tone has been accompanied by a shift in reviewers. Some of the most perceptive writers - Sociologists Lewis Coser and Nathan Glazer, Economist Oscar Gass - are no longer contributing to the Review. Space is now filled by such New Left Partisans as Paul Goodman, Conor Cruise O'Brien, Andrew Kopkind and Chomsky, who reflect the opinions of the Review's principal founder, Jason Epstein, and its editor, Robert Silvers. "I wanted to write critical reviews," says Coser, a professor of sociology at Brandeis, "not the kind of demolition jobs they asked for. They...
...years of success at home and in school; the risk to one's sense of values of coming to question, in a strange environment, the virtues of democracy, charity, accomplishment, perhaps even life itself. The Colombia Volunteers reported how hard it had been to overcome impatience and not to demand quick results...
Guttmacher asked for liberalization of present abortion laws, but not for outright repeal. "To allow abortion on demand," he said, "would relegate man to the status of the bull...