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Official ACLU/CLUM policy in this area provides, first, that while "the right of protest is an essential element" of free speech, the ACLU would object to "private pressure group activities" that would "restrict a free diverse marketplace of ideas." ACLU is pledged in such situations to "call public attention to the dangers of such consequences...
...reached twelfth grade. In Minnesota, shortly before she got her diploma, she met Robert Bundy, who was working on a master's in electrical engineering. He was nine years older, but "he looked real young." They were married in 1949, and Bob went to work in Los Angeles. "His object was to get to Tucson for me, because it was dry, and I had asthma." When a job opened up in 1952, "we moved like a shot." In 1956 she earned a degree in history and English from the University of Arizona. That was also the year they bought...
...matter of Gary Hart is not simple. One turns it in one's mind like an enigmatic object, and with each turning it glints with a different light. The questions raised last week are as complicated as Hart's mind, which is complicated indeed...
...University of Massachusetts in Amherst, mathematicians plot complex equations on a computer-graphics terminal, which translates the numbers and symbols into form and color. Watching a curving, perforated object take form on the screen, the mathematicians gradually become convinced that they have produced a new shape with a jawbreaking name: a complete embedded minimal surface with finite topology. Previously only three such shapes were known to exist; topologists have sought and speculated about a fourth for two centuries, but until this moment it has never been proved to exist. The imagery demonstrates that there are an infinite number of such...
Though entry comes hard to the 1,500-member NAS, essentially an honor society that doubles as policy adviser to the Federal Government, rarely have the incumbents barred so weighty a nominee as Huntington. The main objection raised by the zealous Lang and his supporters: an allegedly specious use of mathematics in Huntington's work to quantify unquantifiable material. For example, Lang cites a passage in the best-known of Huntington's dozen books, Political Order in Changing Societies, in which the ratio of aspiration to % satisfaction was examined in 62 countries. "The overall correlation between frustration and instability," Huntington...