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...sensationalism of the copy forestalls any extended attempt by the Spectator editors to explain why the Columbia campus was one of the earliest to erupt. Why, that is, beyond despair over the war and distaste for university bullying of the community, issues, common to all campuses. The Ivy Wall makes a flying reference that greater social awareness at Columbia and an insensitive administration might have triggered the crisis...
...that most Americans guard their health, five or ten years may elapse between exams. Under the health plan, however, the aim will be on constantly-supervised care. The initial exam--accompanied by a barrage of "screening test"--may be able to pick up many potential problems long before they erupt. From the beginning, health plan physicians will emphasize nipping illness while it's easy to nip instead of waiting for the kind of full-scale disease that requires a trip to the hospital...
Candlelight Procession. The pattern of unrest in Pakistan had a familiar beginning in student demands for education reform, which sparked bloody rioting. By last October, however, when civil disorders began to erupt on a wide scale, the opposition to Ayub was pushing far more substantive complaints. One had to do with Ayub's system of "basic democracy," which was really little more than constitutional window dressing to ensure his stay in power. Another was the resentment of the people of East Pakistan, 55% of the divided country's population, over what they felt to be the neglect...
...next day, more through mingling than computer matching, the artificial society is beginning to stabilize. Several couples hold hands on deck chairs in the warming sun. A dozen small parties erupt spontaneously in a dozen staterooms. A haggard haberdasher from Baltimore stumbles out of his cabin, glass in hand, looking for ice. "Whew," he says. "She needs two 20-year-olds-not one 40-year-old." Milgrim adopts a literary tone: "Liaisons are being formed and torn asunder faster than you can light a cigarette...
...divisive effects of a 267-day newspaper strike that all but paralyzed the town, Detroit these days is diverted by the exhilarating symptoms of a raging case of pennant fever. The very idea of getting into the World Series once again has temporarily brightened everything. Fights may still erupt during discussions of such volatile topics as race relations, religion or politics. But talking about Tiger successes is absolutely uncontroversial. September's mood is a reflection of the relief expressed by the Detroit News after the Tigers' last pennant: "Again this fall, when a mass neurosis settled...