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Only the Finns, who have learned to smile in the face of the Russian bear, kept calm. For 17 years Finland has managed the most spectacular balancing act in Europe. Perched on Russia's doorstep, Finland has had to permit Soviet meddling in its internal affairs to the point of allowing the ouster of anti-Communist Cabinet ministers; nevertheless, the country has remained strongly independent and has prospered economically while maintaining a vigorous democracy...
...universal solution is "going with," "going along with," or, in a squarer phrase, "going steady." A boy often signals this understanding by giving a girl his fraternity pin, following up with roses delivered to her sorority house during a candlelight ceremony. Dating security leads at least to the doorstep necking or the kiss before class that sometimes is known as P.D.A.-public demonstration of affection. The authorities frown on P.D.A. "We don't want to discourage kissing," says the University of Miami's Assistant Dean Louise Mills. "But we do try to tell the girls they shouldn...
...crowd retreated temporarily, but kept up a fusillade of bottles, rocks and paving stones. Inside, Martin Luther King took the pulpit to say: "The ultimate responsibility for the hideous action in Alabama last week must be placed at the doorstep of the Governor of the state. We hear the familiar cry that morals cannot be legislated. This may be true, but behavior can be regulated. The law may not be able to make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching...
...Doorstep Murder. While police hustled the kicking, screaming man from the court, Baron von Freudiger brushed tears from his eyes. The interruption was a grim reminder of the bitterness that still ravages the Hungarian Jews who escaped Nazi annihilation. Some survivors insist that rich Jews bought their freedom by shipping poor Jews to the ovens of Auschwitz. One of the baron's colleagues. Dr. Rudolf Kastner, was denounced by an Israeli court in 1955 for his dealings with the Nazis. Later, Kastner was murdered on his doorstep by vengeful Jews...
...protect its own, if it is to keep its own house and doorstep clean, (if for no other reasons), the University must take the lead in developing not only the area surrounding it but also other parts of Cambridge. In civic affairs Harvard might take a good example from M.I.T. The new Technology Square development, covering about eight acres, represents a joint effort by MIT, an investment company (Cabot, Cabot, and Forbes) and Lever Brothers to develop an area primarily for industrial purposes. MIT went into the project as an investor, not as an academic institution...