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Morison compared modern technology to a Frankenstein which threatens to destroy its creator. He felt, however, that "man is not powerless against the process of advancing technology." Education, he said, offers the key to controlling the monster. "Of all the institutions in our society, the university will exert the determining influence on our culture...
Defenseman Mike Patterson missed Wednesday's 4-1 victory over Bowdoin due to a Charley horse but should be back on the ice tonight. Patterson's defensive skills were not needed against the powerless Maine team, but they are a must tonight if the high scoring Bruins are to be stopped. Ike Ikauniks, clubbed in the car by the Bowdoin goalie Wednesday, hasn't missed a practice, and should also be ready tonight...
Victory was essential for Park, because the Assembly, though virtually powerless in most other respects, has the constitutional right to institute impeachment proceedings against the President by a simple majority vote. Disregarding election laws, government officials campaigned for Democratic-Republican candidates, and police made house-to-house canvasses. So blatant were some of the tactics that Park was forced to sack two Cabinet members to still the opposition outcry. At the same time, to build up his regime's democratic image, Park ordered an amnesty for political prisoners, publicly permitted exiled former President Syngman Rhee, 88, to return...
...Radcliffe undergraduates will have pre-marital affairs whether the Administration approves or not. Some of these affairs will be happy, others will not; many of these undergraduates will learn to relax with sex, while others will allow sex to master them, for a time or forever. The Administration is powerless to control these things. But what it can do, and finally what it will be bound to do, is to create an atmosphere in which the new morality can work itself out sensibly, where men and women can relax with each other and with sex, without feeling triumphant or guilty...
...constituted Latin American government fell by the wayside, toppled by military revolt. The victim this time was the small Central American republic of Honduras. It was the second such coup in eight days, the fourth this year, the seventh since President Kennedy took office.* Throughout, the U.S. has seemed powerless either to prevent the coups or even decide on a consistent approach...