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Although the University boasts the finest undergraduate housing of any college in the country, it can make no claim that its provisions for married students is anything above the national mean of appalling mediocrity...
...emphasized that the new interest in religion is not against methodical thinking, but "it will not be completely limited or held back by methodical thinking when such limitation seems to mean turning away from the richness of experience and the fullness of life...
Kadarj also offered Mindszenty safe-conduct to the frontier from his hideout in the American embassy, but the cardinal refused, not trusting Kadar's word. Some Vatican officials believe that if Mindszenty were to leave the embassy, it would mean imprisonment, and perhaps death. "The only question is," mused one Vatican insider last week, "should he choose this martyrdom? It would be the supreme fulfillment of his sacred mission. But he cannot offer himself egoistically. It is a question of practical timing and of holy vocation. He cannot submit himself until he himself feels that martyrdom will not unduly...
Lives v. Pocketbooks. In a dozen columns in the past month, Lawrence has ridiculed the notions of a tax cut, argued in a summing-up last week: "While a tax reduction-if the budget were cut by as much as $6 billion-would mean a saving to every taxpayer of about $78, it could be at a cost later of such a weakened defense in a possible war as to wipe out overnight any such saving...
Both the U.S. and Britain are apparently keeping their large test bombs as clean as possible, presumably by increasing the proportion of energy that comes from nuclear fusion (hydrogen) reactions. This does not mean, however, that clean bombs will take the global threat out of nuclear...