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President Thieu discovered, though, that not everything could be accomplished by decree. He had asked the National Assembly for special powers to rule the country's economic sphere by fiat for one year. By a surprising vote of 85-10, the House of Representatives turned Thieu down. Explained one representative, Nguyen Van Nheiu: "Special powers lead to dictatorship." Thieu still has a chance to have his way if the Senate approves the measure and sends it back to the House. But if nothing else, the exchange demonstrated that the fledgling constitutional rule begun last fall amid such high hopes...
HANOI'S war-time strategy could have important effects in what the communists call the "cultural" sphere as well. By dispersing city populations throughout rural areas, it is bringing more politically conscious urban workers and university students into contact with the North's relatively backward peasant masses. While ostensibly the product of a mass revolution. North Vietnam seems to be having real problems with its peasantry, which has resisted regimentation more persistently than China's rural classes. The regime may be hoping the example of a dedicated urban phalanx and the patient persuasion of students will bring around some recalcitrant...
...mixers" because some girls who just don't get asked to dance, "go back and complain to deans and parents, who, in turn, complain to us (the deans)."... Those girls that are dissatisfied just should not come back. Why should we, as Harvard undergraduates, be penalized in our social sphere because of a group of snivelling girlings who lack any social maturity to handle the situation...
...opposition to incumbent members of the faculty. The established criteria for appointment are scientific competence and basic integrity, rather than which side of a scientific controversy a candidate happens to be on. The danger of the Corporation's decision, therefore, promulgates a doctrine of noncontroversy within the sphere which has been firmly established as that of faculty prerogative, a sphere which is most generally characterized as that of academic freedom. Talcott Parsons Professor of Sociology
...cavemen. Aided by two empathetic chimpanzees (Roddy MacDowall and Kim Hunter), Heston eventually makes his escape across forbidden territory where no monkey hand has ever set foot. There he learns the dreadful secret of why evolution has been reversed, and why simians, not men, rule this most earthlike sphere...