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...radicals of the 60s witnessed first hand the resilience of institutions to progressive change. Others have seen the establishments at Harvard and other places withstand challenges from outside. But for the idealistic students whose hopes were high, the strength of institutions caused sharp disillusionment with the possibility of fundamental, rapid change. If the revolution was just around the corner, then the block stretched out indefinitely. And before they could reach the end of the block, their four years at Harvard were over, and they had to make decisions about how they were going to support themselves...
...more in the coming months, to 13% or 13.5%, and then level off. That would be enough, the economists forecast, to moderate growth. The blistering 8.8% rate of rise in the gross national product in the first quarter was something of a fluke, caused in part by a rapid buildup of inventories. By the fourth quarter, G.N.P. growth is expected to slow to a more sustainable 3.5% pace...
...these 568 superdelegates are not yet chosen, and an additional 150 are not yet committed to a candidate. The other group of free-floating convention voters, elected delegates not committed to Mondale, Hart or Jackson, might be persuaded to sit on their hands. Then what? "The erosion will be rapid if Mondale falls short on the first ballot," Hart Adviser Mark Hogan says hopefully. Uncommitted Superdelegate Peter Kelly, California Democratic chairman, seems prepared to slide for the good of the party. "Only one thing is going to influence my vote," he says, "and that's what the preponderance...
...Ruskin in his sober frock coat on the rocky verge of a Scots cascade, that every wrinkle of the gray gneissic crag he stands on is meant to speak of the geological span of the creation and to imply a sense of time at the opposite extreme to the rapid movement of the water, so that the life of man is presented as a kind of middle term between the geologically permanent and the merely transient...
...British possession in the Atlantic midway between Britain and the Falklands, in 8½ hours. Now the quickest flight from Ascension is a twelve-hour trip in turboprop C-130 Hercules cargo aircraft that have to be refueled in midair. More important, the new runway will allow the rapid deployment of British troops in an emergency. Although the democratically elected government of Argentine President Raúl Alfonsin has replaced the military regime that invaded the Falklands in 1982, the British-and especially the Falklanders-remain suspicious of Argentine intentions. Says Sir Rex Hunt, who as civil commissioner...