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...term "crooks" to those who have been indicted by a grand jury but have not yet had the opportunity to make their defenses in court. I wonder, in view of the fact that proceedings before grand juries are absolutely secret, whether it is bad taste or worse to refer to rumors that the head of the Massachusetts "Turnpike Commission" (sic) would have been indicted, had he not died...
...future the Bureau will do better to work with a few students effectively and refer some to other advisory agencies, rather than deal with many students less effectively. By thus limiting the size of its operation, the Bureau will have to formulate and report generalized knowledge about students' academic experiences to aid advisors and faculty at large. Hopefully, by the modest addition of just one more counselor next year, the Bureau will be able to continue its major role of student assistance in the quiet obscurity it thrives upon...
...mistake in an article on electronics [March 27] to refer to an electronic device as being mechanical. Much worse is your calling a computer a brain. A brain has approximately 10 billion neurons, logic and memory units, and possesses the capabilities of instinct, intuition and imagination. A computer can have the equivalent of about 100,000 neurons and is a complex tool to magnify man's intellect. It is very important that the public understand what computers are and what they are not because of the increasing impact of computers on our society. DONN B. PARKER...
Gaullists, who refer to France's still inoperative nuclear deterrent as the force de dissuasion, have never been very precise about how or what it would dissuade. In the April issue of France's National Defense Review, General Charles Ailleret, chief of the general staff, comes up with a nuclear strategy custom-made to fit the force itself...
...vast Saudi royal family, including nearly 50 princes of the blood, assorted sheiks and religious patriarchs. The council issued a fatwa, a religious fiat, that declared Saud no longer able to govern and authorized his brother to "discharge all external and internal affairs of state without having to refer to the King." When the news was announced by radio, every transistorized tribesman who was tuned to Mecca knew that this time it was the will of Allah...