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...with historians who insist that "objective reality" exist, that it alone determines human action, and that if only we can count all railroad ties and piglets in a country we shall know what it is. "Numerology" is what he calls the most zealous, usually American, attempts to demonstrate wie es eigentlich gewesen war. Not surprisingly there are those who consider his views of the past fruitless or even anarchic...
Because of the termination of ROTC contracts, Harvard will be granting scholarships to about 15 members of the class of 1973 who would have received ROTC scholarships, said L. Fred Jewett '57, director of Freshman Scholarships. He es- timated the cost of replacing the ROTC scholarships at $25000 to $40000 for next year...
...upheavals too." If farms are becoming large, business is becoming still larger. French corporations are swiftly reorganizing their methods and management along American lines. Their executives are studying computer management, and computers are becoming a way of life and profit. There is even one model on Paris' Champs-Elysées that reads horoscopes ?and that predicted, after reading De Gaulle's, the defeat. The growth of the French economy has created a role for thousands of marketing concerns...
Once considered incurable stay-at-homes, the French have spilled out of their country in recent years to explore the world in greater numbers than have any other Europeans. Airline offices, with their posters showing faraway places, have taken over the Champs-Elysées, and last week the press announced that a new airbus treaty would be signed with Germany. It is no longer unusual to find a barber in Antibes or a salesgirl in Lyon who has visited the U.S. ?or anywhere else?as a tourist. Practically everyone, it seems, has made a summertime visit to the Spanish...
...religious legend. Ac cording to the story, an Irish Christian princess named Dympna fled from her widowed pagan father when he ordered her to marry him. He pursued her across the sea to Geel, where, insane with incestuous lust, he beheaded her. He instantly recovered his sanity, thereby es tablishing Dympna's reputation as a virgin martyr with powers to cure the mad. The date of her canonization is uncertain, but in the 13th century a chapel in Geel was named for her. Mentally afflicted pilgrims to the chapel soon overflowed the small lodge built to house them...