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...Tung once remarked that it takes an intellectual ten years to rejoin the people, but I suppose the time estimate for students would be much shorter. Only yesterday we arrived here children fresh from suburban hothouses, living contradictions cast up by a society which was twisting us as much as those we were being trained to rule. For all God's dangers, our critique of a "Harvard education" will spring again and again from our struggle to become "ordinary" in the most profound sense of the term...
...sidewalk is broad in Central Square and people often stop in its middle or on its edges, so the general flow has to meander around these bunched-up pedestrians who have recognized each other as Greek or Spanish-speaking and who want to exchange news before they rejoin the crowd, which, it seems to me, is mostly English-speaking. I'm startled by the number of old people. At the intersection of River St. and Massachusetts Ave. there is a triangular island with a row of benches along its base; old men sit there in the evening with their hands...
...time it died last week, few fans cared. Meanwhile, 380 players were jobless. Among them are a handful of celebrated N.F.L. expatriates, including Running Backs Larry Csonka and Jim Kiick and Wide Receiver Paul Warfield from the Miami Dolphins. When, if ever, they can overcome legal entanglements to rejoin the Dolphins or sign with another N.F.L. team is uncertain. What is certain is that an era has ended. The gold-rush days of expansion are over...
...determined chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Ray Garrett Jr. pushed through reforms long opposed by Wall Street. He also moved the watchdog agency into such new activities as demanding disclosure of bribes paid to Government officials by U.S. corporations. When Garrett leaves to rejoin his Chicago law firm, he will be succeeded by a corporate lawyer who may ruffle almost as many feathers. Last week President Ford nominated as the SEC's new chief Roderick M. Hills, 44, a presidential assistant and head of a White House task force looking into ways to reform federal regulatory agencies...
...other members of the delegation spent Monday and Tuesday at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. They will rejoin the group today for a discussion with Harvard and MIT scientists on science organization and policy...