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Most of the many casual rumors circulating about the course are more myth than reality. All applicants have heard stories about the dangers involved in taking the class, so of course they tend to latch on to the incidents of aggression when they arise as proof that their fears were justified. As one section leader in the course commented, "most of the people who are afraid of ending up 'casualties' of Soc Rel 120, are usually those who are most afraid of their own aggressive tendencies; they are more concerned with hurting someone and exposing themselves, than with being hurt...
There has been some discussion lately about taking up sky diving. Miss Paget thinks the program will never get off the ground. But as she also says, "When these girls latch on to something they like, they take it all the way." In this case, that's about 5000 feet straight down...
...folk purists, Dylan first bridged the gap between folk and rock six months ago by adding a thumping big beat to the elliptical verses of his Subterranean Homesick Blues. He followed with his biggest folk-rock hit, Like a Rolling Stone, and the big-beat groups were quick to latch on to his songs, most notably It Ain't Me, Babe by the Turtles and Mr. Tambourine Man by the Byrds. Booed during a performance at this year's Newport Folk Festival for his big beat, Dylan philosophized: "It's all music; no more, no less...
...even more painless stratagem is to latch on to a mystery or thriller writer who is not yet widely known. Fleming and le Carré, of course, are old-gat. So are Britain's Len Deighton (The Ipcress File) and John Creasey (Death of an Assassin), whose books have been made into movies. Georges Simenon, the prolific French author whose Inspector Maigret has solved more than 60 book-length cases to date, has yet to win a mass following in the U.S., despite his fine ear for Gallic nuance and a geographer's eye for locale. One enterprising...
...Latching the Door. Donner announced a $1 million G.M. grant to M.I.T. for a four-year study of traffic safety. Chrysler Vice President Harry Chesebrough disclosed that his company's 1966 models will have a new door latch that will substantially reduce the chances of car doors opening in an accident; he also called for the creation of a federal automobile center to coordinate safety programs. All of the executives promised that their 1966 models would have many of the safety devices that the Government has begun to require on its own cars...