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...suggested changes are twofold. The first involves new procedures for closing Senate debate by a two-thirds majority of those present after two days of debate, or by a simple majority of those present after fifteen days. The anti-filibuster drive is headed primarily by men who fear the power of Southern conservatives in blocking civil rights legislation and who are willing to abandon a long-standing Senate tradition of talkativeness to achieve their civil rights objectives...
...cherry hung on a string, painted to fool the eye, emphasize the strangeness of the rest. Dali's title for this weird and serious effort: Quasi-grey picture which, closely seen, is an abstract one; seen from two metres is the Sistine Madonna of Raphael; and from fifteen metres is the ear of an angel measuring one metre and a half; which is painted with antimatter; therefore with pure energy...
...Numbers. Moving by the numbers, hat-changing ministers rushed from meetings of the Big Three to reconstitute themselves as The Four, The Six, The Eleven, The Fifteen, The Seventeen. They talked of defense shortcomings, of economic welfare, of hangman's justice in Cyprus, and gun patrols off Iceland...
Manolete was a significant man. And that is why one can sit through a hundred minutes of drivel movie to see fifteen of Manolete. The Death of Manolete is another Spanish Horatio Alger story. The only road to fame and wealth open to a poor Spanish boy as everyone knows by now is the bullring. The whole story, from dodging calves with a wooden sword to the inevitable fatal goring is told through old photographs of varying tones and textures, accompanied by a vaguely familiar soundtrack of bullfight music and roaring crowds...
...twelve years will not involve students or their parents in sacrifice much beyond the present. Indeed, the objective is to increase the sacrifice to some extent because, on the whole, as compared to the rise of per capita income, tuition has become a great bargain in the last fifteen years and this is at the expense of the kind of product that the colleges are turning out. If the student pays more, he will also get a higher quality product, we hope. Seymour E. Harris '20, Littauer Professor of Political Economy...