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By not severing anyone, the Faculty realized that many of the students became involved in the demonstration on the spur of the moment last Wednesday. Their activities grew out of justifiable bitterness over the war and the use of napalm. At most, only a few of those punished were determined...
Most of the demonstrators probably would have been content with picketing or some other form of non-obstructive protest. That would have been acceptable. But some of the leaders were determined to take more radical action. There is nothing sacrosanct about this country's laws, but only a transcendent moral...
To oldtime pilots, a good landing was any one from which they could walk away. The trouble with today's passenger-crammed jets is that too many people do not get a chance to walk away - even from crashes that the Federal Aviation Administration classifies as "survivable." Six years...
American chemical and steel producers, however, angrily denounced the pact. The chemical men promised a fight to prevent Congress from repealing the American Selling Price law-even though the U.S. exports chemicals worth three times its imports. The steelmakers' ire centers on the Kennedy Round's comparative failure...
At a news conference earlier in the day McCarthy was asked to comment on the effects of this month's elections. He said that he did not anticipate any significant obstruction of the President's legislative program even considering the Republicans' increased strength in both Houses.