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Under the bill, the University would also gain the power to enfranchise Radcliffe students who hold Harvard A.B.'s. The governing board should use that power to give Cliffies the vote...
...society, a revolutionary movement may have to use the existing structure of power to some degree. But Epps does not discuss this contradiction in depth. All the other essays in this issue hit at the same contradiction. In Nigeria, Tanzania, and the American Civil Rights movement, people want to gain independence, but they need help from larger society. At some point revolutionary movements may have to compromise their radicalism in order to succeed. Still they must hold off compromise as long as possible to attain independence in the end. Peter Weiner's article called "Guatemala: the Aborted Revolution" is distressing...
...more difficult to extract cooperation and cash from the 90th Congress, which convenes next week, than from the compliant, free-spending 89th. The three-seat Democratic loss in the Senate (the new lineup: 64 v. 36) will result mainly in strengthening the Republicans' moderate-liberal wing. The G.O.P. gain of 47 House seats in the November election, which cuts the Democratic advantage to 248 v. 187, gives the Republicans their strongest House delegation since 1957-58 and nudges the House back toward its traditional role of skeptic. A recent survey by Congressional Quarterly showed that while 218 representatives...
...that the gravity of other planets represents a still-untapped source of energy for long-range space flights. Jupiter's gravity, for example, would exert a tremendous pull on a passing spacecraft, accelerating it greatly and deflecting its course. Thus Jovian gravity could be used, in effect, to gain both thrust and a mid-course correction without the expenditure of fuel. Space scientists, like expert billiard players, can precisely determine the amount of acceleration and degree of deflection by careful control of both the velocity and course of the spacecraft as it approaches Jupiter...
Proved by Mars. Under Stewart's direction, scientists at JPL's Advanced Studies Office have calculated that a Saturn 5-powered craft launched on Oct. 1, 1978, would gain so much speed as it passed Jupiter that it could reach Saturn in only 2.8 years and Uranus in 5.9 years. A flight launched into a proper trajectory on Nov. 1, 1979, would be picked up by Jupiter's gravity and hurled to Neptune - like a skater at the end of a crack-the-whip line - in only 8.1 years. The scientists also discovered that the outer planets...