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...That would permit the U.S. to leave Viet Nam with less of an implication that it was forced out, or was deserting any of its Asian allies. However, Hanoi is a block to such an arrangement; it has repeatedly refused to consider any such regional negotiations. Other, even more distant possibilities include the signing of a non-aggression pact between Washington and Peking, or an agreement by both powers to renounce the use of force in any dispute in Asia. Either kind of agreement would seem to offer Peking no particular advantage and would tie its hands militarily...
...retain the "lost" tribe as a link with man's distant past, the Philippine government may designate the Tasaday forest home-estimated to be twelve square miles-as a preserve that will be off limits to loggers, ranchers, miners and other invaders. But even well-intentioned visitors from the 20th century may undermine any future anthropological studies of the tribe; gifts of a bow and arrow, a metal bolo knife and sugar from Dafal and the investigating scientists are already moving the Tasaday out of the Stone...
...clock-paradox equation, the clocks on board should lose about one-hundred billionths of a second compared with another extremely accurate atomic clock left behind in Washington. During the westbound flight, however, the plane will be flying against the earth's rotation. To an observer in distant space, the clock in Washington would appear to be moving faster than its four counterparts in the air and thus would slow down in relation to them. As a consequence, the airborne clocks should gain about three-hundred billionths of a second relative to the Washington clock during the second trip...
Penn was second with 33, and Harvard finished third with 32. Navy was a distant fourth with 24 points, and Princeton was barely in sight, finishing seventh with 17 1/2 points...
Working class people must first be seen as individuals and not stereotyped as hopeless, ignorant racists. The greatest virtue of The White Majority is its portrayal of the actual life-style of the white working class--one very distant from Harvard's. In the words of Gene Cappelli, a 29-year-old hospital attendent who makes $101 a week to support a family of four, "If a lot of these higher-up people discussed some of this and tried to see it like the lower class people, it might help...