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Such conventional wisdom is eroded by the attention paid student radicals and is sometimes swept away entirely by dramatic events like the outpourings of campus protest following the U.S. intervention in Cambodia and the Kent and Jackson State student killings last spring. With the demonstrations came fervent pledges from thousands of students to work this fall for liberal and antiwar congressional candidates. The most heavily publicized and widely considered proposal was adopted by Princeton University, which rescheduled its semesters to give students two weeks off before the election for campaigning...
...Reader's Digest. But in other ways it resembles no journal of the Western world-with the possible exception of Benjamin Franklin's old brainchild, Poor Richard's Almanac. Devoid of ads, news, politics religion, sex, its 108 pages brim with simplistic sermonettes, warm remembrances and fervent hopes. Texts, which seldom run over 500 words, are sprinkled with bland heads ("One-Man Production" "Dynamics for Survival"), beguiling sketches and bylines of the famous and the unknown...
...putdowns. They have distorted news stories to back their hunches, ridiculed prominent women with consummate cattiness and indulged their personal likes and dislikes in puffs and snubs. But no Women's Wear vendetta, however vicious, has ever raised a controversy that can compare with Fairchild's and WWD's fervent espousal of the midi...
Despite his fervent pan-Arabism, however, Gaddafi is careful to maintain Libya's assertive independence. Though he has bought more than 100 tanks from Russia, he has refused a Soviet request to establish a naval base at Tobruk that would serve Russia's Mediterranean fleet. British advisers still instruct Libya's small navy, and a dozen Libyan pilots are being trained in France to fly the 110 Mirage jet fighters that Gaddafi bought from Paris. The French may be asked to run the former U.S. air force base near Tripoli...
...thousands who came to Washington took part in an unusual Fourth of July celebration, but across the nation more traditional observances contributed to one of the most fervent Independence Day celebrations in years. At exactly 11 a.m., whistles, bells and church carillons sounded in unison in towns and cities. In Philadelphia, the Declaration was read at Independence Hall, where it was first adopted...