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...domestic reaction had produced no new surge of street demonstrations, the first reports of public opinion were disturbing. George Gallup reported that public approval of Richard Nixon's presidency had fallen to 51%, the lowest point so far: only 19% agreed with Nixon that the Laos drive would shorten the war. Louis Harris discovered that 46% felt that U.S. troop withdrawals from Viet Nam were "too slow." No wonder, then, that when the President returned to Washington, he decided to hold a televised press conference and confine the questions to matters of foreign policy...
BEARS don't do much when it's cold. As the days shorten and the temperature drops, they retreat into their caves. It's almost as though they'd disappeared; if you didn't know better, you might think they were dead. But actually, they're quite alive, performing most of their bear-functions, quietly, unobtrusively. And when the warm weather returns, they emerge from underground, healthy and refreshed, ready to start all over again...
Robert Shenton, registrar of the College, said yesterday that the Faculty Council did not change the exam period schedule because "we would have had to spread the period thin or shorten it." According to Shenton, the changes proposed to accommodate Jewish students "would be a hardship for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...Faculty Council, which was designed to streamline and shorten Faculty meetings, has had less than complete success. In a Faculty as large as Harvard's it is difficult to consider major issues with even minimal comprehensiveness. Criticism of the Faculty for confusion and chaotic procedures came after the meetings held last spring in the wake of the April University Hall takeover. Yet the new form of government seems to be having its own difficulties. While votes are taken more quickly and debate is shortened, charges of railroading and fixed agendas are more common...
...bodies and psyches are in the process of change, and they are heavy users of drugs. If they want to marry, their families tend to disapprove. Both groups are obsessed with time. Youth, though, figures its passage from birth; the aged calculate backward from their death day. They sometimes shorten the wait: the suicide rate among elderly men is far higher than that of any other age group...