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...Soviet relations, in fighting the red-baiters of both post-war eras, in protesting the Hiroshimas, the Bays of Pigs, the Vietnams. And, as certain of his essays in Voice in the Wilderness drive home, the reader should be grateful. For Lamont, had he written the books requisite to obtain a tenured position more revered than the "lecturer in philosophy" job he worked at intermittently for almost two decades at Columbia, Cornell, the New School and Harvard's Graduate School of Education, would surely have wallowed in the nitpicking pedantry that some of the lesser essays in Voice...
...angry? Its grievance against the suburbs--like the South's grievance against the North--is real, despite its usefulness to the people who throw rocks at schoolbuses. But the redress of that grievance will be likelier when education is better and when black and white people unite to obtain it. The integration of Boston's schools should hasten that...
Students can obtain a towel ticket at the House dining halls or at any of the athletic facilities with showers. A clean towel will be issued in exchange for such a card, and the card will be returned when students hand back a dirty towel...
...COMMISSION. Ford could appoint a commission to lay bare the full Watergate story, much as the Warren Commission (of which Ford was a member) studied the assassination of President Kennedy. From Congress, the commission could obtain subpoena power to compel Nixon and his former associates to testify and surrender all of the evidence in their possession. Congress could also give the commission authority to grant witnesses immunity from prosecution so that Nixon's former aides, like himself, could not refuse to testify on the basis of constitutional rights against selfincrimination...
...obtain the two views that are necessary to create a three-dimensional picture, Chatfield added an extra magnetic coil to the electron microscope. The coil deflects the microscope's electron beam as it scans a target so that the microscope actually looks at the same object from two different angles. The separate images are fed into an ordinary color-TV set, which displays one view in red and the other in green; the set's blue circuitry, ordinarily needed to give the viewer a full spectrum of colors, is disconnected. When a viewer looks at the screen while...