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...think there is no comparable institution in the country with a greater claim to representativeness than Harvard College. As Professor John K. Fairbank's Task Force on the Composition of the Student Body has pointed out, our recruitment and selection procedures are designed to yield a group of undergraduates as able and talented in varied ways as the nation can produce. Their parents may be rich or poor; they may be the sophisticated and city-wise children of New Yorkers or the graduates of tiny schools in rural New Mexico; some are ready to perform on the concert stage while...
...Fairbank disagreed on this point, saying that China has a need to shore up its weak relationship with the U.S., rather than drift any closer to the Soviets...
Terrill and Fairbank agreed that the four radical leaders who were arrested will probably not be killed, although the Chinese press said last weekend that they were "liquidated" from their party posts...
...Fairbank said this term is usually used only to indicate the dismissal of an official from his post...
...Fairbank responded to a question from the audience by saying that he could not estimate the security of Hua's political position. Terrill said, however, that he considers Hua's position secure, because his radical rivals have been dispatched with apparently little protest popularly...