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...University is building the underpass, he said, "for safety and to ease movement of people and automobiles." Previously, there was "conflict" between the 20,000 cars per day moving east-west on Kirkland and Cambridge streets and an estimated 12,000 students walking to and from the Yard, he said...
This must be the decisive issue. In recent years world-wide attention has focused on the unofficial East-West struggle for Olympic metal. It is right that a nation should glory in its individual citizens' athletic achievements. But it is wrong that the nations should use the athletes themselves as tools in the continuing ideological combat. The Games should be, as they were for the Greeks, a period of respite from the depression and the terror of strife. The Olympics must be preserved as a major testing ground for international harmony, not as a minor battleground in international conflict
That is a gamble Westy was willing to take because Khe Sanh sits astride five passes through the rugged Annamite mountains, including the major east-west Route No. 9. Control of Khe Sanh, U.S. commanders insist, puts the Marines in a blocking position across the natural invasion route into the northern provinces of South Viet...
Herbert D. Long, dean of students at the Divinity School, has been awarded a federal grant for advanced study in religion at the University of Hawaii's East-West Center. He will be in Honolulu from February to August...
...Johnson took office until the end of 1966, he got 655 of his 1,057 proposals enacted into law a sensational 62% average. (By C.Q.'s reckoning, Dwight Eisenhower batted 46%, John F. Kennedy only 39%.) But in 1967, Johnson was defeated on his tax-surcharge, civil rights, anticrime, East-West trade and legislative-reorganization bills. Foreign aid was cut by a record $1 billion, poverty funds by $300 million, model cities by $350 million. The rent-supplements program was practically shrunk out of existence from $40 million to $10 million. Despite Congress' fractious mood, however, Johnson...