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Dean May's call for curriculum reform, and the current level of dissension, raise some serious questions about real educational reform at Harvard. The movement here got a dose of repression from the Committee of Fifteen last Spring. Now Dean May, having announced his presence over the bullhorn with the Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities, is speaking in soothing tones of liberal curriculum reform. If repression hasn't stifled discontent, will caption do the job? Will the promise of a little more novelty and fun in the curriculum divert attention from substantive issues and suppress just demands for fundamental reform...
...Mexican airport greeted us with a heavy dose of colonial atmosphere: Yanqui colonial atmosphere. Dark-skinned Mexicans handling the bags, light-skinned Mexicans behind the counters in ties and jackets speaking English. Multinational corporate fingers all over-Avis, Hertz, Coca-Cola, Haig and Haig. The FBI hit us at customs with lots of Nikons and flashbulbs, stood us up against a wall in groups of five and then got our names and addresses down. After all this we almost ran onto the Cubana Airlines DC-7 (left over from Batista's regime) for the flight to Havana...
...hardly begin to comprehend. In San Francisco, Reporter Chris Andersen found the problem frighteningly close to home when a good friend was able to summon "a talkative, nonrepentant heroin addict." For Chicago's Sam Iker, it became "a crash education -perhaps too much to take in one massive dose...
...been tried, with limited success, on homosexuals, alcoholics and drug addicts-though in all cases the treatment is extremely unpleasant. A heroin addict, for instance, is given a drug (Scoline) that seriously impairs his ability to breathe. Just before the drug takes effect, he gets his usual dose of heroin. After several such harrowing experiences, he presumably kicks his habit...
Fortunately, neither Levine nor his son seems to have been hurt by the poisoning. Even 300 times their dose has produced no ill effects in the two other known cases. But unless the radioactive element is removed, they will go right on "ticking" as long as they live-and probably for some time thereafter. Americium has a half-life of 458 years; it takes nearly half a millennium for 50% of the isotope to disappear...