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Americans accustomed to grumbling about bad train service and late mail deliveries can take some perverse delight in a joint foul-up that showed both of their demons at their worst. More than two years ago, a Penn Central railroad car carrying 319 sacks of mail and 1,874 parcel-post packages left Philadelphia for Birmingham...
...newest offspring is an amusement park in Orland, Florida ("Disney World") which has the tax status of a city, and is soon to receive its own city government. Employees are not simply trained, they attend Disney World University, where a new, optimistic outlook on life is part and parcel of the training. The real and the fantastic mix even more bizarrely in the famous Disney Matterhorn bobsled ride which takes place in a replica of the mighty Matterhorn. The ride was recently closed following a wave of decapitations of sled occupants in the midst of their escapism. The sophisticated technology...
...tour to parcel out 4,200 acres of Government land for public use, Pat Nixon was ambushed in Minneapolis by a group from the American Indian Movement who yelled "Squatter" and waved placards claiming THE LAND REALLY BELONGS TO THE INDIANS. "Well," said Pat, smiling wanly, "we have a few friends here. Thank you for coming." Outside San Diego, the smile came easier when a dripping, bare-chested surfer appeared to thank the First Lady for the beachfront real estate...
...evidence in the light of relevant standards? Were irrelevant and improper standards excluded from consideration? Was the decision a bona fide exercise of professional academic judgment?" (Spring 1970 AAUP Buliletin.) It is, in short, due process in the academic arena and would seem to be part and parcel of any meaningful notion of academic freedom...
...then, it was not so surprising that Kissinger would consciously misrepresent the Administration's position. For it was part and parcel of great power diplomacy that one must lie and distort to attain one's ends. And in fact, it was Kissinger who-more than anybody else in the White House-perpetuated the myth to colleagues and friends that the United States was gradually extricating itself from Indochina and would continue to do so regardless of the circumstances. In private meetings with visitors-and in background sessions with the press-Kissinger continued to imply that American withdrawal would soon...