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Just where an undergraduate fits into this is difficult to fathom. Of the 16,000 or so students here, about 6200--slightly under 40 per cent--are going through their first four years of higher education. Of the 4300-some instructors, 763 are voting members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which most often comes in contact with undergraduates and which spends about one-fourth of the university's $200-million budget...
...daughter-in-law (Carol Speed) starts acting up. Her sexual passion is unquenchable. Her vocabulary becomes raunchy, and her voice turns coarse to match. She knocks her husband around, makes the windows shake and the furniture jump and is even responsible for a death or two. Medical science cannot fathom her symptoms. Is she crazy? Or is her trouble-as someone ominously and predictably puts it-"something else"? Only her cleric knows for sure...
...years the Russian KGB, the CIA and other espionage organizations have tried to fathom the enigmatic course of life in China by monitoring provincial radio broadcasts, intercepting military messages and occasionally recruiting contacts within the People's Republic. Not surprisingly, the best China spies are the Chinese themselves. Agents of Taiwan's intelligence network in past years have provided the most sensational and intimate glimpses into the murky world of Peking politics...
Nixon's public life began 28 years ago, and since then, legions of political commentators, barroom sages, Freudian analysts and psychohistorians have attempted to fathom his inner workings...
...intentions of Spinola and the military men who support him are difficult to fathom, Rogers cautioned. "It is not yet clear whether Spinola really is a humanitarian liberal or a tool of the big businessmen who want to continue grinding down the masses," he said...