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...Crimson only exhibited spasmatic signs of life throughout the game, as Cornell maintained a death grip on its 14-point margin...
...moves to tighten Mrs. Gandhi's grip on India came at a time when some observers had hoped for at least a symbolic relaxation of restrictions. Mrs. Gandhi's supporters insist that she could win an open election handily right now. She insists just as strongly that it is more important to carry out the reforms proposed in her 20-point economic and social program, such as abolition of indentured labor, land redistribution and expanded irrigation networks. That may be so. But her determination to quash all opposition suggests that she does not dare to risk a genuine...
Kodama has financed adamantly conservative causes and postwar politicians. He is also reputed to have a grip on the yakuza, the Japanese equivalent of the Mafia; politicians have been known to wince at the mention of his name. Idaho Democrat Frank Church, chairman of the Senate subcommittee, charged last week that Kodama is "a prominent leader of the ultra-right-wing militarist political faction in Japan. We have had a foreign policy of the United States Government which has vigorously opposed this political line in Japan and a Lockheed foreign policy which has helped keep it alive...
...good, at least unchangeable. If they don't seem particularly happy about this state of affairs--both for its larger political implications and for the distasteful adaptations andaccommodations into which it forces them--they accept its inevitability. The sense now seems to be that we are in the inextricable grip of the tough and sad business of life, and that college is a very serious and real affair where there is little room for slipping ever so slightly off the track. Whatever we came as, we're emerging as pragmatists who have purposively gone about getting a good idea...
...other hand, a total eschewal of technique would be a backward, unproductive step. So, for that matter, would be a total embracing of it, an attitude he attacks various people--including Harvard professors Daniel Bell and B.F. Skinner--for espousing. The future in a world in the grip of technique is more inevitable than it is bleak...