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First applied in America as early as 1825 to children committed to Houses of Refuge, the indeterminate sentence, in vivo, did not adhere to the procedure outlined in the passage above. However, it did retain the spirit of that passage. Children, though they were not required to earn a fixed sum while in the Houses of Refuge, did have to demonstrate not only their acceptance of the laws and abstract principles of American society but also, if only by mime, their genuflection to the dictates of a Christian God and of capitalism...
President Nixon claims to support the seating of the People's Republic, but he also wants the representatives of Chiang Kai-shek's regime to retain a seat. This so-called "dual representation" scheme is nothing more than the dead-beat 'Two China Policy." America asserts that the People's Republic and Chiang each legitimately represents different segments of the Chinese people, and, as such, both deserve representation in the U.N. This is what Secretary of State Rogers claimed in his October 4 U.N. speech as "the reality of the current situation...
...retain the "lost" tribe as a link with man's distant past, the Philippine government may designate the Tasaday forest home-estimated to be twelve square miles-as a preserve that will be off limits to loggers, ranchers, miners and other invaders. But even well-intentioned visitors from the 20th century may undermine any future anthropological studies of the tribe; gifts of a bow and arrow, a metal bolo knife and sugar from Dafal and the investigating scientists are already moving the Tasaday out of the Stone...
...increase of women in the Houses will force changes in the House Intramural program, Floyd N. Wilson, director of intramural athletics at Harvard, said last week. "The issue at hand is whether to retain the system as it is or to change it because of Radcliffe," he said...
Director John Schlesinger and writer Penelope Gilliatt have created something free from self-pity or self-hate, even though they deal with the upper-middle-class. Their film starts with the question "Do you feel any pain?" It ends with the conclusion that people can retain emotional sensitivity, self-respect and respect for others if they are willing to build on the world that's given them. Some might say that the message is dull simply because it is quietist, or that it is appropriate only to these three people. Such reactions would--from whatever point-of-view--be puerile...