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Wearing dark business suits and sober expressions despite the warm weather, the party leaders marched up the red-carpeted stairs in twos and threes and made their way inside to the massive Spanish Hall, with its high ceiling and Bohemian crystal chandeliers. When the tall, blue-eyed boss of the Czechoslovak Communist Party got out of his car, the crowd pressed closer for a better look and reporters broke into applause. Unaccustomed to such public displays, Alexander Dubček, 46, merely tipped his grey fedora, smiled hesitantly and strode briskly inside. More than any other man in Czechoslovakia...
...students on problems of concern to both. This is how the Trustees should see it, too; Miss Batts' is not an unreasonable vision. It is definitely not an attempt by a group of power-hungry Miss Mitties to take over the College, as Miss Batts and her very sober co-officers have stressed over and over again...
...formulation regarding punishments will be seen by students as threatening. The opposite is true. Under the Deans' plan, students will once again be forced to second-guess the administration over the consequences of their acts. But the absence of a clear-cut definition of punishments turns the usually sober act of civil disobedience into an undignified gamble. Students have a right to know what punishment they must weigh against the dictates of their conscience...
...more sober and responsible resisters stake their faith in the few cases where local draft boards, notified of a registrant's move to Canada before they have issued an order to report, have re-classified him I-Y in order to avoid unbecoming publicity. Others see the election of a benevolent President in 1968 or 1972 who will grant a general amnesty. And for the radical fringe the revolution in the States is impending. When it comes they will return vindicated and triumphant...
...fortnight ago, Patricia Cunningham gave birth to a full-term, 5-lb. 5-oz. girl. If she had had an infusion shortly before delivery, the baby might have been a bit high at birth. But she had had none; Beth Ann was sober and altogether normal...