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What SDS'er would fight police over "greater employment opportunities for students in factories"? Jobs for students was probably the major demand in the violent demonstrations in Belgrade during June, 1968. Thousands of students waged a pitched battle for several days, nearly causing a national crisis. Their foremost concern is still good jobs after graduation...
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., then 37 and a Senator from Massachusetts: "He is rather pompous for his age and decidedly interested first and foremost in his own career...
...principal mark of the ongoing Christian life, even as the Lord's Prayer invites us to daily repentance and forgiveness of sins. It is an irony of what can be called White House religion that the chief spiritual advisor of both President Johnson and President Nixon is precisely our foremost preacher of repentance. Repentance is a religious term which, when cast back into its original Greek sense in the New Testament, means change of mind...
...want with them on the proverbial desert island, the questions were put to Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery, 82. No problem with the book. Montgomery unhesitatingly chose his own History of Warfare, emphasizing that its most valuable passages deal with "how we could stop people fighting." That question is now foremost in his mind. Asked to choose his favorite disc, the old soldier could not decide between The Battle Hymn of the Republic and Oh, For the Wings of a Dove...
...insists: "It can't be. I haven't had my nap." Such is the mind of the child, by most indications illogical and full of nonsense. Not so, says Jean Piaget, a grumpy, mountain-climbing Swiss philosopher who is also one of the world's foremost child psychologists. Few researchers have so meticulously or provocatively mapped that terra incognita, the mental world of children. For 50 years, Piaget, now 73, has been discovering through deceptively simple experiments that children actually have surprisingly intricate thinking skills that adults should learn to appreciate and understand better than they...