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Unless Abernathy settles down to some long-range planning in place of the pulpit vagaries he has relied upon so far, he could conceivably be supplanted-or the organization could follow its founder to the grave. For the time being, though, Abernathy is plainly relishing his new position. "We are going to stay in Washington," he declares repeatedly, "until Congress decides to put an end to poverty in this country...
...other prospective buyers to step up their efforts. Last week Computer Sciences Corp. of El Segundo, Calif., which is about one-sixth as big as Western Union, made a better bid. After marathon negotiations in New York and Washington between Chairman-President Russell W. McFall of Western Union and Founder-Chairman Fletcher Jones of Computer Sciences, the two men agreed to recommend a merger to shareholders. In an exchange of stock worth $350 million, Western Union will become a part of nine-year-old Computer Sciences. Jones pointed out that his company and Western Union had been working with each...
Other faculty members who have expressed interest in the course are: Robert M. Coles, research psychiatrist at UHS; Joseph L. Featherstone, graduate student in history and associate editor of the New Republic; Barbara N. Cohn, lecturer in General Education; and Paul Potter, a founder of SDS and instructor in philosophy...
...Historian Max Nomad believes that anarchists follow a "daydream of desperate romantics." Man's urge to do away with the apparatus that governs him is obviously almost as old as government itself. It is, perhaps, the ultimate Utopia-the idea of a community totally without constraint. Zeno, founder of the ancient Greek school of Stoic thought and anarchism's earliest forerunner, opposed Plato's ideal of state communism in favor of his own vision of a free community without government. Medieval Christianity was full of individualist sects that held that man's laws necessarily interfere with...
Clumsy Canard. Kosygin arrived at a time of rising anti-Soviet feeling in Czechoslovakia. Earlier in the week, that feeling had been exacerbated by an article in Moscow's Sovietskaya Rossiya that called Dr. Thomas G. Masaryk, founder of the Czechoslovak republic and the country's most revered historical figure, an "absolute scoundrel." The journal charged that Masaryk in 1918 paid a Russian terrorist named Boris Savinkov 200,000 rubles (then worth some $10,000) to kill Lenin. Masaryk's memory is enjoying a fresh outpouring of honor and homage in the wave of current reform...