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Norman Mailer, who has had his literary ups and downs, feels that the national political conventions have "encouraged some of his very best writing." This year's conventions are no exception - they may indeed have encouraged his best. With a minimum of the compulsive self-analysis that has characterized his other work, he re-creates in the November Harper's the events, personalities and mood of Miami Beach and Chicago. His reporting is, as always, intensely personal as it probes the darker, unexplored passageways of American political life. But Mailer - Eastern Seaboard exotic, alienated artist, New York practitioner...
Pell said that dissatisfaction with academic credit for ROTC is linked to antiwar sentiment--a political, not academic issue that should not involve ROTC status. "The minimum military skills a student is taught in college," he said, "are not radically different from many other skills taught in the typical institution of higher learning today...
There are other quirks as well. For decades, the FBI has used a $50 minimum in defining larcenies that make up an important part of its crime index. Obviously, the shrinking value of the dollar changes the meaning of those figures; partly as a result, larceny has been the fastest-growing category on the crime index recently. Another example: for as long as anyone has kept track, youths from the mid-teens to early 20s have committed the largest number of offenses in all categories. During the '60s, the post-World War II baby crop came of criminal...
Brian Dowling should handle the UConns with a minimum of effort; 31-16 sounds reasonable, but Yale's defense needs shoring...
...forecast a gradual slowdown of economic expansion. Along with that, he said, will come a rise in unemployment, a profit squeeze on business, and continued but smaller price increases. Painful though that prospect is, Okun and many other experts on NICB's rostrums agreed that it is the minimum price that the U.S. must pay to put its economy into balance...