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...Kent placed second out of 37 candidates, retaining his three-year seat in the sixth precinct. Kent said that the Town Meeting "is a lot of fun. People are always yelling. People get their views expressed...
After an eleven-hour delay, the first prisoners freed by the Viet Cong in the South arrived, looking more gaunt and dazed from their captivity than the men from the North. Douglas Kent Ramsey, a civilian adviser captured in 1966, walked off the plane in his prisoner's pajamas and with a subdued, satisfied smile, bowed to welcoming officers-an oddly Oriental touch...
...Palo Alto, Calif., nine-year-old Kent's teacher and the school psychologist talked his parents into administering drugs to control the boy's mischievous and belligerent behavior. The amphetamines, however, only made Kent depressed. Frequently he complained of feeling persecuted by other children and cried himself to sleep. His parents took him to a psychiatrist, who concluded that all the boy needed was more activity to use up his frenetic energy...
...undergraduate education is possible only because the political sensibilities of people here are declining. But any discussion must account for the conditions that Harvard's once dominant political passions changed. Recent Harvard classes haven't been as alienated as the people who lived through the University Hall Bust and Kent-Cambodia strike. Pre-meds are a flourishing sub-species and law school admissions preoccupy everyone else. Rampant pre-professionalism makes a quiet student body. But though Sigma Alpha Epsilon is staging a comeback here, parietals will never be popular again. Official university involvement in private College life will be minimal...
...forgotten. One remembers the immense human carpet covering the grounds of the Capitol after Cambodia, collectively pleading for the termination of that outrage. One's memory then telescopes into the personal expression of grief on the face of a girl weeping over a friend's body at Kent State...