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...pepper for Nozick, liber- and vege- tarian...
Populist Alliance. Should the Broad Front succeed in selecting its candidate, retired General Liber Seregni, 54, that will mark the first time in 136 years that Uruguay's President will have been chosen from neither the Colorados nor the Blancos, whose platforms as conservative Establishment parties are virtually indistinguishable from each other. The Front was formed by dissidents who feared that President Jorge Pacheco Areco's repressive response to workers' demands and to the activities of the youthful urban terrorists, the Tu-pamaros, would lead to civil war. It is composed of half a dozen small parties...
...intriguing sequence was first mentioned by Fibonacci in his book Liber Abaci, which was published in Pisa in A.D. 1202. To solve a hypothetical problem about the multiplication of rabbits,-he used the numerical series 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, etc. Each number following the first 1 consisted of the sum of the two previous numbers. Fibonacci attached no great significance to the sequence, and it was generally ignored through the years by all but dedicated mathematicians. Then, in the early 1960s, Brother Alfred Brousseau, who teaches math at St. Mary's College...
...overriding concern of the delegates was the strong trend toward change in the Roman Catholic Church. Some participants warned that "liber alism" prepares the way for Communist infiltration of the U.S. and the Church. On hand were representatives of militantly anti-Communist groups ranging from the Young Americans for Freedom to the Cardinal Mindszenty Foundation. Lola Belle Holmes, a Negro who identified herself as a former undercover agent for the FBI within the Communist Party, declared that it is out "to capture the Catholic Church." The nation's only hope for leadership, she added, is George Wallace...
...reliance on action--confrontation and protest--rather than ideology has enabled SDS in the middle phase of its development to include a wide variety of personalities and interests. The organization can claim as members blue-collar militants of the Progressive Labor Party, as well as three-piece suit liberals from ADA. There are anarchist hippies, humanists, Communists and an increasing number of former members of Young Americans for Freedom, a liber tarian laissez faire capitalist group. About 85 per cent of the membership, according to Davidson, serves merely as "shock troops." These are younger members, usually in the "long hair...