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...individuals, usually from the Student Senate or the campus newspaper, The Daily Illini, ever protested against such things as the ban on political speakers; most students were probably unaware that it existed. The one generalization which seems to me most nearly true of the Illinois undergraduate is that his sphere of interest begins with himself and may extend as far as the University but usually not beyond his own dormitory or fraternity house...
...Cuba is in our natural sphere of influence, not in Russia's. By trading with Cuba, by investing in Cuba in so far we can, by educating Cubans, by permitting Cubans to travel to the United States and Americans to travel to Cuba, and in general by promoting contacts and ties between Cuba, and us, we can exert a strong influence on the development of Cuba even under Castro, and we can undermine an important basis of Communist strength there. Our policy unnaturally isolates Cuba from our powerful influenco. D. B. Life...
...sense, In Search of France has been reviewed already, for Francois Goguel's concluding essay is at once a summary and a critique of the other five studies. Says Monsieur Goguel in his article, "Profound transformation in the economic sphere, changes in the organization and values of society (albeit less rapid and less complete), immobility and nonadaptation in the strictly political sphere: such is the conclusion of the several studies of this book...
Other pressure originates from outside the academic sphere. The sophomore interested in athletics invariably faces intense competition and great pressures in trying to make a varsity team. The fall of the sophomore year is also the time of the final clubs punching season, and this period may be real agony for the student who considers election to one of them to be all-important...
...decades ago, the Japanese marched out to impose with guns their "Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere" on the helpless nations of Southeast Asia. Last week, while most of the world's eyes were trained on Europe's faltering Common Market, the Japanese were again swarming over Asia, and in Tokyo Foreign Minister Masayoshi Ohira was again talking of co-prosperity. Today's invaders are briefcase brigades of Japanese businessmen with funds to invest in local industries and squads of technicians offering help for every venture from building dams to making watches. In 1963 the Japanese really...