Word: failed
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...Portugal, there is no question that it is extremely concerned about the centrifugal pull the Portuguese revolution could have on Spain. The regime's response has been to clamp down even more. Says one leading Socialist: "The Old Guard is praying desperately that the Portuguese revolution will fail. Although the government is saying nothing, we know many of its members are secretly delighted that Portugal seems to be moving to a military dictatorship of the left. This is bad news for us too. We want a democratic Spain, and our chances of achieving that can be destroyed...
...water, shakes the Popular Front Government of Leon Blum and forces the deportation of Leon Trotsky, who until then had enjoyed political asylum in France. Resnais asks us to believe that Trotsky could have held the European Left together by his commanding presence--and here I fail to follow him, for it is far from certain that Trotsky's location had such resonant historical consequences. And it seems likely that the Stavisky scandal was merely the occasion of Trotsky's expulsion and not its cause. Trotsky's appearances in the film are curious but handled without any major blunders...
...follow-up two days later caused more of a flap: a thunderous attack on a $342,000 contract by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to study the sex lives of Michigan State College students, mostly to find out why some fail to use birth control devices. Charging a "serious mismanagement of taxpayers' funds," Proxmire pointed out that the contract was awarded noncompetitively last fall to a former official of the institute for nearly $100,000 more than had been requested. For overkill, the Senator tossed in the argument that the students' privacy might...
...danger as it now presents itself to us in a new form is apt to grow as colleges and universities look increasingly to government and business for the sustenance they must have to keep alive. Limited dependence of this kind need not necessarily be harmful, but it cannot fail to be dangerous if there is not a clear, prior recognition of the way universities deeply and truly serve society...
...GSAS, realized the departments would be problem when he took the job, but because he was not involved in the admissions process, he could not do anything about it. The 48 departments of the GSAS each admit their own graduate students, and any centralized recruiting effort was bound to fail. But a centralized recruiting policy is not so much to blame as the faculty members who make decisions on admissions. According to Gay, Peter S. McKinney, administrative dean of the GSAS, sent out letters to all department chairmen advising them of the need to recruit. Gay said that...