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...trend toward coeducation takes many forms, ranging from outright enrollment of the opposite sex to varying degrees of cooperation among sexually segregated schools. Kenyon, a liberal-arts college for men in Gambier, Ohio, expects to go coed within two years, is leaning toward the creation of a coordinate women's college. So is all-male Colgate University in Hamilton, N.Y. Wells College, a selective women's school along the shores of New York's Cayuga Lake, expects to accept male undergraduates within five years, probably in a coordinate men's branch...
There are several reasons why Lindsay is keeping his involvement in partisan politics a secret. It would be very embarrassing for the Mayor if there were an outright split in the party and the organization refused to endorse him in 1969. And this may happen if the organization decides that they stand to gain more patron age under a Democratic administration. Lindsay is convinced that he could win an overwhelming victory in a Republican primary even without the endorsement of the party bosses, and that the November election would become a mere formality. But a primary fight could very well...
...worth fighting is a cause worth winning." Rockefeller stands with the President, declaring that Johnson "must back the American commitment to freedom-and we must back him in this commitment." Percy, the least bellicose of the lot, is somewhat ambivalent: he proposes neither an unconditional bombing halt nor an outright pull-out but emphasizes the need to "accelerate the pursuit of peace...
...offer to work for nothing. In time he caught on as a $108-a-month draftsman at Huff Daland Airplane Co. of Ogdensburg, N.Y. Later he became a stress analyst at Buffalo's Consolidated Aircraft but was soon politely asked to look for employment elsewhere. He was fired outright by Ford Motor Co.'s aviation division...
...Asian eyes it is a fact that some aspects of the American Vietnam policy seem sometimes disturbing. For example, the bombing of North Vietnam does constitute an outright attack on a sovereign state by another without any declaration of war. Even assuming that America is capable of innovation in every aspect of war, the bombing is not a welcome precedent for a nation that has long been known for its moralistic foreign policy. We certainly respect the American ability at self-control which the sophisticated idea of a step-like escalation seems to demonstrate, but the logic of escalation itself...