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Could there be a cause more important than Learning, a goal more pressing than the military discipline of a smoothly running college? The Faculty answered this question with a resounding "No!" The Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities states, "The central functions of an academic community are learning, teaching, research and...
But this is a hollow argument, one that does little to bolster Nixon's defense. It is all too easy to forget, in reading Price's attack, that the two years of national hysteria over Watergate misdeeds, real or imagined, would not have occurred if Nixon had not initiated the...
ILL. Hubert H. Humphrey, 66, indefatigable Minnesota Senator, former Vice President, and 1968 standard-bearer of the Democratic Party; with inoperable pelvic cancer; in Minneapolis. Doctors discovered a malignant tumor on Humphrey's pelvic bone during a four-hour operation to remedy a bowel obstruction. The Senator's...
The fate of two men Nixon said he had considered pardoning was decided instead by the Supreme Court last week. There would be no review, said the court, of the convictions of John Ehrlichman and H.R. Haldeman-or of former Attorney General John Mitchell. All three had been convicted on...
On the day following this needling, Frost set aside his favorite white wines (Montrachet and Pouilly Fuissé) and began closeting himself with his staff and reading far into the nights in his suite atop the Beverly Hilton Hotel. He was still in a mood for cramming, fortunately, as his rented...