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...destroyed, however, the controversial disqualification of Star Skier Karl Schranz (TIME, Feb. 14, 1972), and Annemarie had to settle for a pair of silver medals. After that setback, she thought of giving up skiing, but the mood lasted only a short time. Then she threw herself into her harsh training regime, modeled after that of a prizefighter-long-distance runs, shadow boxing and rope jumping-and had a metal plaque made for the dashboard of her car: NEVER FORGET SAPPORO. Said Proell to a friend: "When I'm second...
...which enjoys Western Europe's fastest-growing economy, young Bretons in search of a job and a future still gravitate to Paris. There they gather nightly, like so many expatriates, in the bars around Montparnasse to raise their glasses to a murmured Breiz atao-Brittany forever, in the harsh Celtic tongue of their impoverished home province...
...Mexican desert gradually became the spine of Castaneda's life. Impressed by his work, the U.C.L.A. staff offered him encouragement. Recalls Professor Meighan: "Carlos was the type of student a teacher waits for." Sociology Professor Harold Garfinkel, one of the fathers of ethnomethodology, gave Castaneda constant stimulus and harsh criticism. After his first peyote experience (August 1961), Castaneda presented Garfinkel with a long "analysis" of his visions. "Garfinkel said, 'Don't explain to me. You are a nobody. Just give it to me straight and in detail, the way it happened. The richness of detail is the whole story...
...major trouble with the Administration's attitude is that it tends to ignore a harsh reality of modern science: the days are long past when a dedicated scientist like Michael Faraday or the young Thomas Edison, toiling alone or with a few associates in a simple lab, could hope to produce a fundamental breakthrough. Now most major discoveries require teams of highly trained researchers and such expensive equipment as electron microscopes, high-speed computers, atom smashers or radio telescopes In other words, without Government funds, pure science is bound to wither...
...will never know whether Harvard students, whose distaste for student government is seemingly pervasive, would agree to serve on an all-student disciplinary committee; whether such a committee's votes would be more harsh or more lenient than a Faculty CRR; whether students would accept the judgment of their peers. And these are the intrigues of University democracy...