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...sponsored by the Ad Hoc Faculty Committee on Vietnam, under the chairmanship of Hilary W. Putnam, professor of Philosophy at Harvard. More than 250 members of the Harvard faculty signed the ad, which will appear again in next Sunday's Times with an additional 2000 signatures...
...everyone at yesterday's meeting thought that the anti-deferment resolution was strong enough. Hilary W. Putnam, professor of Philosophy, told the Faculty he would have preferred a motion refusing to supply class rankings, as a way of dissociating Harvard from the war in Vietnam. "For me," he explained last night, "the injustice of the war far outweighs this or that inequity in the Selective Service System. And the Selective Service System the University community a part...
GREAT HOUSES OF AMERICA by Henry and Ottalie Williams. 295 pages. Putnam. $20. The best there is in the U.S., from Monticello and The Breakers to obscure local favorites such as Adena at Chillicothe, Ohio, and Bellingrath in Theodore, Ala. Interiors, exteriors and floor plans...
LOST CITIES OF ASIA by Wim Swaan. 175 pages. Putnam. $15. All five of the lost cities that are shown and described here died in battle, some several times over. Angkor in Cambodia is world-famous, but the others, though less well known, are well worth the discovery. Sigiriya, a mountain fortress in Ceylon, was abandoned after King Kassapa, disgraced in battle, committed suicide. Anuradhapura and Polonnarawa, also in Ceylon, were capital cities until their destruction by Tamil invaders; Pagan, Burma's pagoda city, gleamed with golden cupolas, bright frescoes and a forest of stupas before it was overwhelmed...
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