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...problem is that there seems to be no clear-cut limit to the types of activities that are thought suitable for the University to perform. Another is the implication that the University must justify its maintenance to the taxpayers by the materials benefits which they receive from it. A pamphlet from the University's Office of Public Information points out that "traceable returns from research alone repay every year to the people of Illinois more than the cost of building and operating the University since it opened...
Because children of different age groups suffer different sorts of psychological problems about nuclear warfare, their parents must be prepared to use different methods to allay their fears, argues the pamphlet's author. Psychologist Sibylle Escalona of Albert Einstein College of Medicine. But one problem is common to all parents and all children: nuclear war hazards are particularly difficult to discuss because parents know so little about them. And the one thing that all youngsters want, from kindergarten through adolescence, is certainty...
Cries of "Rubbish." In the week be fore the conference. 20 million copies of Macmillan's pamphlet, stating why Britain must join Europe, were circulated to every corner of the United Kingdom. At Llandudno young party workers distributed among the delegates hundreds of five-inch lapel badges that bore only one word: "Yes."' Belatedly. anti-Marketeers copied the ploy, but their "No" buttons were overwhelmingly outnumbered. To provide the facts and figures about the Market, Britain's chief negotiator, Lord Privy Seal Edward Heath, interrupted meetings with the Six in Brussels and flew to Wales. Exhibiting...
...well-bred Williams College, freshmen once studied fraternity bids a lot harder than books. But last week Williams (1,134 men) was out to stop the Greeks. A little pamphlet mailed to all the "Williams family" squarely stated the problem: "Fraternities at Williams have come to exercise a disproportionate role in undergraduate life." It urged Williams to take "complete responsibility" for feeding and housing students. This would cut the fraternities off at the knees...
Today, for all his hatred of "lionization," even the dustiest pamphlet by Dodgson fetches a fortune at auction...