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...saying: "I would not want the U.S. to be described by future generations as a society that stood amidst the filth, the oppression and the violence of its slums and shot rockets to the moon." Even Vice President Humphrey, himself a strong promoter of the Apollo program, has worried lest "we go down in history as a people who could send a man to the moon and five Coke vending machines along with him, but could not put man on his feet right here on earth...
...naked power struggle with his "bourgeois" enemies is becoming so turbulent, in fact, that it is causing mounting concern among the countries around the Asian periphery. Communist North Korea had been carefully suppressing the news from China, lest its own youth catch the Red Guard fever. But last week it lashed out against Red Guard posters that reported a plot to overthrow the North Korean government. Cried Pyongyang: "An intolerable slander." Japan is disillusioned about its recent new moves toward Red China and fretful about its carefully cultivated and growing trade with the Chinese. Pakistan, which has beea edging toward...
...foreign banks-poured back into the U.S. last year. If falling U.S. rates reverse that flow, it would deepen the already worrisome U.S. balance of payments deficit, putting further strains on the dollar abroad. Similarly, the British dared only a cautious cut in rates to help stagnating industry lest a bigger step put new pressure on the pound. The Chequers "miniSummit" produced a mere gentleman's agreement, but it recognized as never before the growing interdependence of the economies of the U.S. and Europe, and so of the need for policies that mesh...
Lance Corporal Walter Lopata made medical history last week when he sat up in his Boston hospital bed and said,"Hello-how are you?" He probably could have said more, but the doctors wouldn't let him try, lest he damage the delicate needlework in his throat. For Lopata had no larynx or vocal cords. These were removed in October after they had been torn to shreds by fragments from a Viet Cong grenade. What he had was a reconstructed throat, the first of its kind in the U.S. and probably in the world...
Finally--or almost finally--I come to a new very large effort to be made for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and for the teaching of undergraduates. This is a Program for Science in Harvard College. Lest humanists immediately exclaim that enough has already been done for science, let me say at once that no neglect of the humanities is implied in the effort. As President Eliot asserted almost a hundred years ago, "This University recognizes no real antagonism between literature and science...We would have them all and at their best." But there is need now for enlarged...