Word: fates
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...complete panacea for the traffic problems facing San Francisco. Even the system's strongest adherents admit that the freeways will probably always be jammed. Still, BART is an important alternative. Without it, the next 20 years could bring total chaos on the roads leading into San Francisco-a fate that could also befall other less-prepared cities. However, help may be available for many communities in the next few years. Transportation Secretary John Volpe said last week that the Nixon Administration would ask Congress to allocate several billion dollars during the next decade for urban mass-transit facilities...
Hussein's dilemma is a vivid lesson to any country that might let the fedayeen operate within its borders. Nonetheless, the most peaceable Arab land of all, Lebanon, is being inexorably drawn toward the same fate. Three weeks ago, its government resigned in the wake of riots by Palestinians and students demanding freedom of action for the fedayeen. Last week Lebanon was still without a government, as its politicians vainly sought a compromise that would, in the words of President Charles Helou, allow Lebanon to "support this just struggle within our sovereignty and integrity"?in other words, without incurring...
...fate of Soc Rel 148-149 will be decided by a secret mail ballot of the Soc Rel faculty, which will probably be held at the end of this week...
BULLET PARK, by John Cheever. In his usual setting of uncomfortably comfortable suburbia, Cheever stages the struggle of two men-one mild and monogamous, the other rootless and haunted-over the fate...
...truth and expose lies." Unfortunately, human affairs often yield a multiplicity of truths, a fact that some intellectuals find hard to tolerate. In her book, Vietnam, Mary McCarthy made a strong case for U.S. withdrawal, but she rejected any obligation to suggest how it might be achieved. The fate of the Vietnamese whose lives depend on U.S. protection-well, such human complexities seemed irrelevant. Philosopher Herbert Marcuse brilliantly analyzes flaws in U.S. society, but he prescribes, among other things, a corrective "intolerance" from the left that, some feel, smacks of fascism run by intellectuals. "Absolutized thought," says Columbia...