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Lacking funds to expand this spring, the University of Utah's medical school had room for only 100 of its 1,400 applicants. Throughout the nine-campus University of California, the headlong growth of the past decade is slackening. Berkeley alone is dropping more than 150 faculty jobs. To save $25,000 this summer, the University of Kansas is leaving its broad lawns uncut. Private campuses are in the worst trouble. A number of small ones are closing down, and others are merging with public institutions. This is the last school year, for example, for Illinois' Monticello College...
There is no way of fixing the precise moment at which the radical left decided to pause in its headlong pursuit of the apocalypse, but the reason for the halt was clear enough: nothing was working right; it was time to retrench, reassess...
...ARVN advance was almost glacial -slowed by twisting terrain, mud that sucked at tank treads, and fears of rushing headlong into what Vice Premier Nguyen Cao Ky described last week as "our Dien Bien Phu." Instead of a lightning strike, the ARVN invasion commander, Lieut. General Hoang Xuan Lam, employed a cautious leapfrogging technique designed to keep his troops within range of friendly artillery...
...have also been warned, for as long as I served in Government and now by those in the Nixon Administration, of the "right-wing backlash," the new "loss of China" witch-hunt, that would follow such a move. We have been warned of the headlong flight into "isolationism," or "neo-isolationism" that would ensue. Are these real dangers...
After all of mankind's headlong progress of the past century, science may well have reached its limit for discovery. This startling thought was offered last week by Geneticist Bentley Glass in his valedictory as president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. "The laws of life," he said, "are based on similarities, finite in number and comprehensible to us in the main now. For all time to come, these have been discovered, here and now, in our own lifetime...