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...most schools, tuition charges meet less than 20% of the total cost of instruction. Every year the tuition at public universities inches nearer the level of charges at private schools. Every year, also, there is a widening gap between tuition charges for state residents and those who cross the borders. In effect, outsiders are helping to subsidize local students. Out-of-state tuition at the state schools rose 19.9% in 1965, climbed another 6.5% last year, has reached a median of $782. The number of these schools charging nonresidents more than $900 a year has risen from nine...
...mouthing McNamara's "Abolish 2-S," but by fighting for an end to the draft itself and reforms consistent with that end. While these reforms are (like all reforms) obfuscations of the ultimate goal, mobilizing support for them can broaden the base of our movement, and bring nearer the time when it will be politically impossible for a Johnson to wage a Vietnam...
...book takes Nabokov only to the May morning in 1940, when he and his wife Vera and their only child Dmitri, then 6, embarked for New York from the French port of Saint-Nazaire. Behind him lay two distinct and finished lifetimes. The nearer one was his 20 years as an emigre Russian in Western Europe, teaching tennis and English, writing more or less autobiographical novels in his native tongue. But the farther distance stood closer to his soul, and it stands there still. That was Nabokov's Russian youth, destroyed after 1917 by the Revolution, and constituting...
...President was especially scathing when a newsman mentioned that Richard Nixon had criticized his Asian trip for having brought the U.S. "no nearer" to peace in Viet Nam; that the war "could last five years and cost more casualties than Korea." Speaking with quiet scorn, the President called Nixon "a chronic campaigner" whose "problem is to find fault with his country and with his Government every two years." He declared that Nixon "doesn't serve his country well" by broadcasting such criticism "in the hope that he can pick up a precinct or two or a ward...
Another factor considered by leaders of the anti-Belt campaign is the reaction of M.I.T. to the apparent new strength of the Portland-Albany route. Last winter, the Institute vigorously opposed another route (the "railroad alignment") nearer to the campus as well as the Portland-Albany location. It is not known, however, whether the Institute's opposition to the Portland-Albany route is as firm as its opposition to the railroad location