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Many of the department's courses can be avoided by the conscientious shirker and there are a number of the white-shoe clientele in the department. Other men will plod through a schedule which includes, for instance: (besides Gov. 1)., Gov. 112 and 113, 124, 135, 135 and 106 (seniors only). Their impression of Government as a field of concentration will be quite different from that of their brethren as will their education...
...Tibet is only 30 miles away. For that reason, Kalimpong has collected over the years a number of mystical characters who arrived via Jelep-la pass from Tibet, and another bunch who would give their last rupee to travel the other way. Foreign cultists, scholars, artists, adventurers and missionaries plod Kalimpong's streets, panting to explore Tibet and its particular brand of Buddhism, but lacking permission to get in. Last week, as they have since the Chinese Reds invaded Tibet in October, Kalimpongians waited breathlessly, along with rumormongering newsmen (TIME, Nov. 20), to welcome the Dalai Lama should...
...every night, but he was far lighted. Every morning Pete would get up, sigh a sigh based on considerable previous experience, and try to cross the lawn to reach the road to Laramie. He would aim towards the town, which he could plainly see shimmering in the distance, and plod along until his nose fell into a ditch. He would then back up about twenty feet until he could see this intervening obstacle, put his head down, and charge forward, jumping when he thought he had reached the trench. Pete's timing was bad. Most of the time he fell...
...Welfare State. On the pediment of the east face of the Supreme Court Building are some marble figures illustrating the fable of the hare and the tortoise, the moral of which was "Slow & steady wins the race." The inference is that the court's function is to plod along at a slow, safe pace, with proper judicial warnings to a sometimes harebrained, galloping Senate & House. At this moment in history, however, it was the conservative Senate & House who were plodding along, passing no broad social legislation...
Chasing Fleas. Opposing factions had moved up to the showdown with the customary elephantine senatorial ceremony. Moodily watched by their Northern colleagues, the Southerners had continued to plod through their filibuster. Any good Southern orator, standing on his head, could have done all the talking that was required...