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...lovers of a philosophical bent may ponder an empty frame bearing the label A Knife Without a Blade Whose Handle Is Missing. Georg-Christoph Lichtenberg, 1742-1799* The more athletic ones can equip themselves for the outback with a bizarre weapon whose barrel undulates like a snake: it is a kangaroo gun, "whose specially studied trajectory enables the bullet to follow the bounding animal...
When PALC leaders were handed that decision Wednesday afternoon, few doubted that a closed Afro meeting Wednesday night would first reject Bok's explanation to retain the stock, and then ponder a response. It was largely a matter of which building would be taken, when and how. But it was no surprise: two Harvard policemen don't ordinarily spend nights in Massachusetts Hall. As Bok said of the previously delayed, now real, occupation. "We weren't exactly unaware of the possibility...
With the U.S. convinced that a stable non-Communist government in Greece is essential to the security of NATO'S southern flank, and with his political enemies dispirited or exiled, Papadopoulos would seem to be reasonably secure. But is he happy? No Greek, of course, would ponder the question openly. Lecturing in Athens last week, West German Novelist Gunter Grass was willing to do so. "I went to Delphi today," Grass observed. "The oracle suggested that only when Prime Minister Papadopoulos, in his role of Minister of Defense, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regent, also becomes the Archbishop...
Some students have remarked that now is the time for true devotion to basic science; they say they will take time to ponder their science's applications after they enter graduate school. However, many graduate students in the sciences wish they had taken more time to consider the interface between technology and society when they were younger, with less established opinions, and had more free time. This has been particularly true for medical students of the past few years. At universities all across the country they have begun to voice a desire to have more of their coursework address...
There remains the Muskie view that a ticket with a black person on it is not yet electable. In this connection, one may want to ponder a series of six Gallup polls taken from 1958 to this past fall. White Americans were asked, "If your party nominated a generally well-qualified man for President and he happened to be a Negro, would you vote for him?" The number saying yes rose from 38 per cent in 1958 to 70 per cent today. That is encouraging, of course. Yet polls are not infallible, and people will often behave quite otherwise...