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John Kenneth Galbraith, peripatetic ambassador, author, political adviser and now professor at Harvard, took the occasion of his 60th birthday for a bit of mental meandering. On age: "I shan't be sorry when men begin to refer to me as old. But I'll be awfully sorry when women do." On politics: "Don't go near any political headquarters. Except for a stirring at election time, they're a kind of grim repository of people who like politics and can't get jobs elsewhere." On the Washington scene: "No tourist should leave Washington without...
...going to have a new Attorney General." Sharp as it was, Nixon's attack on Attorney General Ramsey Clark was almost kind compared to what some of Clark's other critics have been saying. On Capitol Hill, Clark's foes, both Republican and Democrat, refer to him as "Cream Puff." One Congressman, Republican Durward Hall of Missouri, has gone so far as to urge his impeachment. Another, Florida Democrat James Haley, says that when it comes to pursuing criminals, "I do not believe that he could find a white elephant on a junior-league baseball diamond...
Although Agnew does not refer to "Marxists" on campus anymore, he still assures crowds that a Nixon administration will put down by force even the mildest forms of civil disobedience. Predictably, the head of the GOP's ticket uses a softer approach to win applause at rallies. "Remember, I believe in our young people," Richard Nixon says. "They're great. Give 'em a chance." But Nixon accepts Agnew's remarks about protests, and the clear warning in his remarks is that any students who disappoint him by disrupting a university deserve to be punished...
...will begin with two speakers followed by a series of section meetings. The speakers will raise important issues, and the sections will discover that it disagrees with certain ideas, is uncertain about others, and is in confusion about yet others. At the end of each section, the group will refer to the reading lists and select a unit of readings to clarify the dispute and motivate further discussion. The class will do the readings and then return to the seminar to re-evaluate the old discussion and push it further into new areas and problems...
...Events at the School this week have led the faculty to the conviction that the time for this is now," Stendahl said during his first address as the Dean of the Divinity School. Stendahl continued throughout the sermon to refer only indirectly to the incident involving Paul Olimpieri, a Marine who took sanctuary in the Divinity School Chapel last Sunday...