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...Durants reject the gloomy view that man is in a dismal rut. Modern existence, precarious, chaotic and murderous as it is, is a vast improvement over the ignorance, superstition, violence and disease of earlier periods. They ask: Are we ready to scuttle the technology that has spread food, home ownership, comfort, education and lei sure beyond any precedent? Would we rather have lived under the laws of the Athenian Republic or the Roman Empire than under constitutions that give us habeas corpus, trial by jury, religious and intellectual freedom and the emancipation of women...
...unlucky break disqualified Friedman in the downhill event at the National Veterans. "I was really going, but I just fell on my can when my skis hit a rut," he said...
Junior quarterback Marty Domres led the Lions to their second victory of the season by completing 10 of 20 passes for 183 yards. Columbia is showing improvement and just might get out of its bottom-of-the-league rut with some late-season wins...
...resourcefulness as a peacemaker. While supporting the recent troop increase in Viet Nam, the Minneapolis Tribune fretted: "Reluctant as we are to criticize the President's handling of the war, escalation of the bombing in such a dangerous way makes us wonder whether the Administration is in a rut and needs some fresh thinking about our entire Asian policy." Usually an eloquent backer of the President's Viet Nam policy, the Washington Post was disturbed by his latest comments on the war. "The President's speech and other Administration pronouncements are beginning to be colored...
...eager to move as we once were," says Mrs. Bradfield, but she still sees virtues in the nomadic life. "It's sort of like New Year's," she explains, "getting a chance to start all over again. I'd hate to get in a rut...