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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WELCOME TO THE MONKEY HOUSE, by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. A collection of short stories and essays in which the author, posing as a mod scientist at the controls of a literary time machine, explores the inner and outer spaces of the man-against-machine perplex...
West Germans can take scant com fort from the state of their own defenses. The Bundeswehr, which is 52,000 men short of its planned 508,000 force level, showed only two weeks ago, in the Black Lion maneuvers, that it was far too inadequately trained and equipped. Wrote Der Spiegel, the big West German newsmagazine: "The Federal Republic's military situation has never appeared so hopeless as today...
...when they came to arrest the Marine or to taunt them with cries of "Pigs! Pigs!" But, in Cox's words, one expected "something": Faculty members might have made statements of support, or joined the chain which bound Olimpieri to his wife and friends, or brought him food. In short, they might have shared symbolically in the Marine's protest...
...SHORT LIFE, Social Relations 148 has raised important educational issues for Harvard, and indeed, for many American colleges. These issues spring not so much from the course's content as from its structure. They are issues which should be discussed and debated publicly, not resolved in a stop-gap fashion for this course alone...
...controversial decision of Tiger manager Mayo Smith to shift Mickey Stanley from center field to short-stop could decide the series. Smith will be sacrificing defensive strength to allow Al Kaline to move into the lineup. Kaline, one of the most respected outfielders of all-time, saw only limited action this season. But his bat will buffer an already potent Tiger attack...