Word: processes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WHILE Time staff members in many parts of the world contributed to this week's cover story on the Soviet Union, the man who had the most immediate contact with Russian life in the process is our Eastern Europe correspondent, William Rademaekers. Armed with eight years' experience covering Communist countries, Rademaekers made two trips to Russia, and one aspect of the way he was received reveals a great deal about Soviet bureaucracy and the Russian frame of mind...
Gerald A. Berlin, president of the Massachusetts chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, remarked yesterday that to induct demonstrators is "clearly to use the selective service process as a form of punishment." Berlin deplored what he called Hershey's recommendation that the draft boards "take justice into their own hands...
...positions of candidates can change radically during the re-distribution process. As low-ranking candidates are eliminated, their votes are given to higher ranking candidates who have not yet met the quota. Any one of the candidates below the top four could possibly end up out of the running if he fails to pick up many votes in the re-distribution...
...students who took part in the demonstration really deserved to be placed on an honor roll instead of being punished. These networks of personal connections, which fortunately included the students, provided the framework for marshaling opposing arguments and opposing constituencies. It was along these informal networks that the democratic process operated. Those who held strong opinions on either side seemed to realize that truculent public assertion of principles could only damage their own cause. Presumably these diverse pressures focussed on the administrative boards. The latter had the task of finding a resolution that the faculty would ratify--if possible...
...corresponding calls for nipping "subversion" in the bud by stronger punitive measures. For repression to work it is already much too late, even at Harvard. The "subversion" has already advanced much too far. Intelligent and tacit recognition of this fact by both sides may just possibly enable the process to work itself out in such a way as to benefit the overwhelming majority of the students and the faculty. Actually the subversion amounts, I think, to an effort to return to the traditional conception of a university as a place where young and old may come together in search...