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...Fifteen months ago, when Italian Premier Amintore Fanfani marched his moderate Christian Democratic Party through the apertura a sinistra (opening to the left) into a parliamentary partnership with the left-wing Socialists, he acknowledged the deal as a dangerous gamble. "We shall certainly have some sleepless nights," he said. By now, Fanfani must be a hopeless insomniac...
...amend the Constitution directly, bypassing the Federal structure altogether. Two-third of the legislatures could propose an amendment, which would have only to be ratified by three-fourths of the legislatures to become part of the Constitution. It has been calculated that because of malapportionment, state legislatures representing only fifteen per cent of the people would be able to amend the Constitution under the terms of this proposal. Ten states have already endorsed the amendment, nearly a third of the thirty-four needed to call a Constitutional convention. Support for it is not limited to the South; the New Jersey...
...Fifteen years ago a group of students wrote a remarkably cogent and even-tempered critique of Harvard education entitled Harvard Education 1948, The Students' View, a student council report available in the Dunster House library and possibly elsewhere. Three extracts, although slightly vague when presented out of context, will show its tenor...
...from Joshua Whatmough--the two have been together so long that one cannot imagine them apart. By 1941, Whatmough had coordinated linguistic studies so well that the creation of the department was feasible. At that time he, himself, did all the necessary typing and paperwork; his total subsidy was fifteen dollars for postage. Today the Department of Linguistics has its own offices and secretaries and a small but growing number of undergraduate concentrators...
...glares across the Red Sea at us. As the bus wound higher into the hills, the elderly lady seated next to me looked at the expression on my face, then eyed Nasser's picture, and, patting my arm, she said, "Never mind, never mind. God will protect us. Fifteen years ago we had nothing here at all. Now see," and she nodded to the kibbutzim riding the crests of the mountains...