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...village across the vast plains, students last week burned the midnight oil as they crammed for university entrance exams. Providing moral support, their parents besieged admissions officers with pleading telegrams, desperately sought out the help of influential friends in politics or government. Doctors suddenly found themselves busy trying to stamp out an epidemic of youthful exhaustion and nervous tension...
...going to conduct the same campaign as usual. I don't believe in the vilification of my opponent. But don't believe everything you read in the newspapers, certainly not everything my opponent says. I'm not a yes man, not a rubber stamp...
...Congress had once been Sukarno's rubber stamp, but it was in session last week for the purpose of formalizing the destruction of his power. Presiding over the assembly when the Bung got up to speak was General Abdul Haris Nasution, whom he had fired as Defense Minister only four months before; Nasution had just been unanimously elected chairman of the Congress. Seated next to the podium was Lieut. General Suharto, to whom Sukarno had been forced to relinquish emergency powers in March; Suharto had just been unanimously confirmed by the Congress as the effective head of the government...
...College filches from Harvard its good name, together with 327 other good names, by registering them in Monaco and acquiring exclusive European rights to their use. The owner of the Brattle and Harvard Square Theatres says that "Harvard Square audiences are the most sophisticated in the United States. . . . they stamp their feet, boo, whistle, and write letters." The CRIMSON elects a girl managing editor and the entire country behaves like a Harvard Square audience...
...long ago, Tito called a plenum and delivered a blistering rebuke to those "who have worked in a way contrary to the implementation of reform." The old-liners are under pressure from a different direction: Tito is encouraging the 8,000,000-member Socialist Alliance, once a rubber-stamp popular front, to stand in local elections against his ruling League of Yugoslav Communists Party. Though still under the League's wing, the Alliance will force League candidates to "openly debate issues," make it more difficult for the old-liners to hide in the woodwork of the bureaucracy. Tito...