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...experienced suicide within his own family, I want to thank you for your sensitive treatment of the Robert R. Young story. A working newsman, I've read enough suicide stories to perhaps grow a trifle cynical. But to such men as Young, success must be synonymous with life. The loss of success makes life unbearable. Statistics point to suicides frequently among the wealthy, often educated men and women. This indicates that money and prestige may not be answers. Suicide is a tragic parody of values gone haywire...
...read with delight your Jan. 27 report of the case against the woman who bore a child through artificial insemination. Did she commit an act "far less responsible and far less human than adultery," as the learned Archbishop of Canterbury claims? Does it "violate the exclusive union set up between husband and wife," and "defraud the child begotten, and deceive both his putative kinsmen and society at large"? If so, the archbishop has splotched the character of the Holy Ghost. Did Joseph sue Mary for adultery? The woman in the case should tell her husband that the child...
...ancient Carthaginian fishing port of Monastir, youngest of eight, grandson of an Arab nationalist who was a leader in a 19th century revolt against oppressive taxes. Educated at French lycées in Tunis, the Faculty of Law and School of Political Science in Paris (where he read Victor Hugo and argued about the Rights of Man). Married Mathilde Lorrain, a Frenchwoman he met in Paris. They have one son, Habib Jr., now Tunisia's Ambassador to Italy...
Immediately after finals--this year on Thursday, January 30, the Bicker committees of the clubs start to make their calls. These calls continue for ten days. Classes resume not long after Bicker has started, but they are largely ignored, sophomores finding it "hard to read anything more advanced than Peyton Place...
Until recently, the News most-read column was the weekly menu of the Radcliffe dormitories. Students keenly feel the absence of this public service, which provided such warnings as "Tuesday dinner: corned beef, parsley potatoes, 7-minute cabage, buttered carrots, coffee sponge...