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...There is no doubt that determined terrorists can blow up property, people and a community's equilibrium. But in a nation where the overwhelming majority favor either the status quo or orderly reform in the liberal tradition, mindless acts of violence by a self-appointed revolutionary elite only harden resistance to legitimate, necessary change. Says New York Mayor John Lindsay: "The use of explosives to tear down the system is self-defeating. It's cowardly. No democratic system can live that way. Society cannot permit...
Boxing, a sport invented by the Spartans to harden the face, will be spotlighted this afternoon in the finals of the Intramural Boxing Tournament...
With Withro in almost universal disfavor, Wil Stevens was the second man to be turned against, although it took almost the whole first semester for the four other proprietors to harden themselves enough to ask him to resign. Stevens had become only a figurehead for the HarBus...
...crudely put, when people get to be thirty they sell out. Selling out means losing flexibility, committing yourself to immediate rather than transcedent goals. It's almost impossible to avoid selling out--so many things force the small time visionary into the prescribed mold. The mold slowly begins to harden and it gets more and more difficult for molded people to relate to the free flowing and unpredictable upstarts...
...Supreme Court Justice continued for weeks and posed an agonizing dilemma: Should the firm welcome him back? The decision lay with the 34 partners, and at first many seemed inclined to forgive Fortas' questionable relationship with convicted Stock Manipulator Louis Wolfson. Then a number of partners began to harden their view. In the end, only Founding Partners Paul Porter and Thurman Arnold argued strongly for their old colleague (Fortas' wife Carolyn, also a partner, abstained). By an overwhelming majority, the partners have now reached "an understanding": Fortas will not be taken back...