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...down and the University would have to contemplate real cuts in its income. But then again, the list is likely to become prohibitively comprehensive only at a point when public opinion is so aroused that the issue of university investment will have become relatively small beans. In the foreseeable, placid, meantime, no one but the dinasaurs is likely to disagree with a cautions study of investment policy conducted by MIT this year which concluded that: "It is unlikely that limited exclusions (of morally unacceptable stocks) could cause a perceptible difference in the Institute's portfolio returns with the wide selections...
...years since its emergence as a major battleground of the Indochina war, Cambodia has teetered precariously between two kinds of trouble -military and political. Last week the once placid nation of 7,000,000 found itself deeply distressed by both...
...that Muskie is honest and can be trusted, no used-car salesman is this "man from Maine." Yet in the final 36 hours before the polls opened in New Hampshire last week. Muskie and his staff were involved in four separate but related incidents of deceit that transformed the placid New Hampshire campaign into a cesspool of low blows and innuendos. Three of these deceptions pertained to campaign financing, while the fourth was related to the war in Vietnam...
...well at the seventh World University Games being held at Lake Placid, N.Y. Officials of the games are pretty upset that New York State Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller did not plan to show up for the games, saying he was "too busy in Albany...
...Chicago Seven trial two years ago. There is the Rev. Philip Berrigan in place of the irreverent Abbie Hoffman, and an earnest, reserved Judge R. Dixon Herman instead of the choleric, opinionated Judge Julius Hoffman. Defense Attorney Ramsey Clark bears no more resemblance to William Kunstler than the placid Pennsylvania capital does to busy Chicago...