Word: pittsburghs
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...York 28--Pittsburgh...
...other sport has expansion caused such confusion as it has in hockey. Last year there were six teams; this year there are twelve-with new clubs in St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Minnesota and Oakland, as well as Los Angeles. All of the new teams, regardless of geographical location, are lumped together into a West Division, while all the oldsters, including the Chicago Black Hawks, are regarded as East. Regular-season team schedules go from October through March with 74 games, and what will happen when the Stanley Cup play-offs finally begin some time next spring is almost too frightening...
MARK A. BRIGGS Pittsburgh...
...addition to Dow and the CIA, a tempting target for antiwar protesters is Government-sponsored secret research carried out on many university campuses. In response to faculty protests, the University of Pennsylvania recently canceled its contracts with the Defense Department to study chemical and biological warfare. The Universities of Pittsburgh and Minnesota are debating similar action; Stanford and N.Y.U. have applied severe restrictions to such work. Last week there were sit-ins and teach-ins at Michigan, protesting military research at the university. At Princeton, students have been bitterly protesting the use of university land for a government-founded Institute...
Ignorance Is Stupid. Antiwar humanities professors tend to see Government-imposed secrecy on research as a clear violation of academic freedom. Scientists argue that university regulations forbidding them to undertake such work are equally a violation. Pittsburgh's John Horty, who directed a classified project to collect U.S. treaties and documents affecting defense agreements with other nations-and found the techniques equally applicable to the assembling of nonsecret documents-believes that academic freedom is supposed to "guard against emotionalism." He thinks "temporarily unpopular research" should be protected against the "emotionalism" of those who oppose...