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...silk route" highway from Sinkiang province to the city of Gilgit in Pakistani Kashmir with an all-weather macadam motor highway running down to the northern region of Ladakh near the cease-fire line. Should Indian troops get anywhere near China's highway or try to grasp its portion of Kashmir, New Delhi could expect to have a has sle with Peking on its hands...
There are, no doubt, numerous grounds for criticism of Professor Herrnstein's masterly essay--as he would be the first to grant--but it must never be forgotten--especially by those who grasp the delicate status of intellectual freedom in modern society--that the mode of criticism or opposition is as important as the criticism itself, if not more so. I believe that the mode of criticism chosen by the opponents of Herrnstein's article is not only unacceptable in a university community, but, what is worse, it plays into the hands of numerous detractors of reason, on both...
...liberal social policy goals and of the heritability of mental abilities. He is clearly resigned to this occurrence, as his last paragraph reveals: "The biological stratification of society would surely go on whether we had tests to gauge it or not, but with them a more humane and tolerant grasp of human differences is possible. And at the moment, that seems our best hope...
...lawyer from Detroit, should settle on Woodstock ten years ago as a good place to practice. In due time, he became a director of the Woodstock National Bank, president of the Rotary Club, and even (from 1964 to 1968) the prosecuting attorney for surrounding Windsor County. Yet apparently his grasp exceeded his legal reach. Wright, 44, stands accused of writing himself and his family into the wills of lonely widows...
...with hope. Many people at the Davenport conference sensed that NAM may be as significant for the seventies as Port Huron was for the sixties. Perhaps that is being overly optimistic, but the spirit of Port Huron--a break with the past, a renewal and an optimistic willingness to grasp the future--was recaptured in Davenport...