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...perhaps symptomatic of the nation's gathering political paranoia that many felt a faint suspicion that Agnew was somehow being played with in the strategy of a bigger?and hidden ?power game. Some improbable "they"?the Democrats, enemies in the White House or whoever?were after...
Baker now admits: "I could detect a faint trace of that smell three or four years ago-but I don't now." In 1969 and 1971 he brashly challenged Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania for the Republican Senate leadership and lost; now he cautiously shrugs aside pointed teasing by colleagues in the Senate cloakroom that his work on the Watergate committee is a prelude to a bigger role...
HARVARD WAS quiet last Spring. The turbulent ever is of the past few years--building seizures, picket lines spewing invective, trashing marches all disappeared, leaving behind only faint memories, seniors regaling freshmen with tales of the past in dining halls and library alcoves. The electric ambiance of the past was quietly defused: the ever-present sense of contingency gave way to a deadening stasis...
...Sank. The Rock Pile. Hamburger Hill. Con Thien. The faint echoes of these and other bloody battles of the Indochina war rumble across I Corps,* the northernmost military region of South Viet Nam. During last year's Easter offensive, the Communists captured most of the area; today it is the scene of a curious military standoff. Recently TIME Saigon Bureau Chief Gavin Scott visited I Corps-officially known as Military Region I-and cabled this report...
PRESIDENT EMERITUS Nathan M. Pusey '28, must be eating his heart out. The nasty events that made his last years here so painful--building seizures, picket lines spewing obscenities, the threat of constant disruption--disappeared this Spring, leaving only faint memories, seniors regaling freshmen in library alcoves and dining halls. Pusey probably wishes he had ridden out the storm and not retired early...