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...year program. And there are many M. B. A. students who would like the SA to continue to limit its activities to "safe" and certainly non-political endeavors-such as Christmas gala affairs, blood drives, and United Fund drives. What they are finding to their great dismay and discomfort, is that these types of activities are no longer adequate to contain the energies and intellects of a growing liberal contingent. Thus, we have Hokanson frantically calling the press in order to nullify the Constitutional rights of nearly 500 students to freely and publicly express themselves on an abominable...
...bilateral recess in MIRV testing pending the start of Soviet-American arms control talks. The measure had seemed to be stuck until Agnew spoke out. Now Majority Leader Mike Mansfield wants the Foreign Relations Committee to begin hearings on it as soon as possible-a move that would discomfort the Administration...
Homosexuals-perhaps as many as 12 million American men and women -are one of the nation's most despised and harassed minority groups. A poll taken for CBS-TV not long ago revealed that two out of three Americans look on homosexuals with disgust, discomfort or fear, and one out of ten regards them with outright hatred. A majority considers homosexuality more dangerous to society than abortion, adultery or prostitution. Society's hostility toward the homosexual-particularly the male -leaves him wide open to blackmail and job discrimination. Police, concentrating more on attempting to control homosexuals than those...
...shown that the best, meaning the most informative, briefings are delivered not by trained professionals in the art but by men who simply know their business. In Saigon this year, a group of visiting U.S. businessmen was growing visibly restless in the course of a lavish briefing. Sensing their discomfort, General Creighton Abrams broke in to start talking informally about the war; although he said nothing new, his familiarity with the reality of war brought the meeting to life. The lesson is that personal communication is better than canned chatter...
...make contact with each other, first by gesture, then by touch. During one of the exercises, in which emotions had to be expressed without speech, pats soon gave way to hugs between men and women and between blacks and whites. Some of the women could not hide their discomfort at their first physical contact with blacks. After one handshake, a black man said to a white woman, "Look-see-none of it rubbed off." One older white man obstinately moved off to a corner and refused to participate, saying, "I wasn't brought up this...