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They are, by and large, exceptions; attentisme is the order of the day. Many intellectuals seem overly ready to criticize, but are reluctant to act on their convictions. A prominent woman lawyer in Saigon notes that "the attentiste maintains a certain amount of honesty without enduring the rigors of outright resistance." Now, she says, "many intellectuals know what they should do, but do not have the courage to do it." She does not-perhaps typically-recommend what it is they should...
...researchers headed by Dr. Maimon M. Cohen at the State University of New York in Buffalo. Within six months, so much evidence had accumulated that the National Foundation-March of Dimes called an emergency meeting of top geneticists to consider the problem. The geneticists were properly hesitant to report outright that LSD causes leukemia. Nevertheless, they observed that the cells of people who had used LSD showed a high incidence of the kind of chromosome breaks and abnormalities characteristic of leukemia. The abnormalities occurred four to five times more frequently among LSD users than among nonusers, said Dr. Cohen...
...Raza: the race, meaning all Mexicans and Mexican Americans, and derived from the mystical theory of the 19th century philosopher, Jose Vasconcelos, that people of mixed race will inherit the earth. At best, it is a rallying cry betokening a mild form of cultural nationalism; at worst, it connotes outright racism...
...President Eduardo Frei Montalva came to terms, after weeks of negotiations, with the U.S.-owned Anaconda Company. Chile will buy 51% control of the giant copper interests of the company (see BUSINESS). It was a victory for the moderate Frei; Chile's more militant nationalists had agitated for outright expropriation of Anaconda...
...mines, the source of 61% of the company's annual production and half of its earnings. Since then, the Latin American political winds have shifted. Last week Anaconda management decided that paid-for nationalization of the two mines, offered by moderate President Eduardo Frei, was better than the outright expropriation that Chilean leftists were demanding...