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...peasants recruited in the countryside. Little wonder, then, that after he emerged from a grim meeting with Defense Secretary Melvin Laird, Armed Services Committee Chairman John Stennis said: "The margin is so thin." By intensifying the pressure against Communist supply routes in Laos, Richard Nixon seemed to be accepting grave risks in hopes of fattening the margin, not just in Cambodia but in all of Indochina...
...think it would be both admirable and wise for Dean Bok and the University as a whole to forgo any such ceremonies this year. Dean Bok has already announced that the University faces a grave crisis in funding. Student aid programs, so often, are the first to be cut. What sense, then, could there be to a lavish, extravagant show of grandeur that Harvard can ill afford...
...incidental Beat writer better known as Dean Moriarty (the hero-madman in Kerouac's On the Road ), and the subject of a 600-page character study by Kerouac, Visions of Cody, had gone off to join Ken Kesey (whom Kerouac disliked), and then had beat Kerouac to the grave. Jack spent his last eight years in St. Petersburg, Florida, living what he called "a kind of monastic life that has enabled me to write as much as I did." Shortly before his death he told a friend, "The Communists jumped on my movement and turned it into a Beat insurrection...
...later phase of the woman who issues an emancipation proclamation to her husband. The larky girlishness of the early Nora is always a bit of a problem, but Miss Bloom manages to be a trifle giddy without appearing inane. As the later Nora, her performance is informed with a grave clarity...
...they will lose so much in commissions that quite a few houses will be forced to fold. For their part, the mutual-fund men contend that there is more at stake than the row over commissions. They say that the brokers' entry into the mutual-fund business raises grave questions of conflict of interest. One reason: brokers may be tempted to "churn" the portfolios of their own mutual funds-that is, buy and sell excessively in order to earn commissions. Last week's move by Dreyfus is not so much aimed at compelling the exchange to allow mutual...