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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...country's dilapidated political system. The grand coalition, of course, does. It will probably, for example, change West Germany's election system from proportional representation to direct balloting in order to stop the free-riding splinter parties from proliferating and to give the big parties a better chance to obtain clear majorities. The coalition will also have the opportunity to straighten out the country's complicated tax and budgetary problems and to push through some of the tough measures that are needed to regulate the German economy...
...American Civil Liberties Union last week urged colleges and universities to resist further efforts by the House Committee on Un-American Activities to obtain membership lists of student anti-war groups. The ACLU rightly condemned HUAC's subpoenaing of membership lists from the University of Michigan and the University of California at Berkeley last August as "one of the most serious breaches of academic freedom of students in recent decades, not excluding the McCarthy...
Since 1949, under the Export Control Act passed to keep strategic goods out of possibly unfriendly hands, U.S. businessmen who wanted to trade with Communist nations had to obtain special licenses to ship even such seemingly nonstrategic items as breakfast cereal and suspenders. Last month, however, in an effort to build better trade relations, president Johnson relaxed many of the barriers. Such definitely hostile nations as North Viet Nam, North Korea and Cuba remain on a no-trade list; but for others like Russia, Hungary and Czechoslovakia, restrictions have been eased. Off the license list came more than 400 items...
...their position must not be misunderstood. They have no objection to genuine dialogue about issues of war and peace -- even genuine dialogue and debate with butchers. It was precisely because every opportunity to obtain such dialogue by working through institutional channels, every opportunity to get McNamara to present his views publicly, was rebuffed that the Quincy House demonstration was scheduled as a last resort. It is unfortunate that the demonstration, and above all the tactic of "physical confrontation," injured the sensibilities of many people on the Harvard Faculty and among the student body. But one should never accept the view...
...will study a phenomenon known as "limn darkening," which is jargon for the gradual decrease in the intensity of light from the center of the sun to its outer edges. By observing into the far infrared, Noyes hopes to obtain information on how the temperatures vary in different layers of the sun's atmosphere...