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...movement can turn, without vengence but with steadfast enthusiasm, to creating an orthogonal university, it will have established a beachhead which will serve it well in changing the remaining institutions, including the government. Such orthogonal institutions will be outstanding, because the people who will work for these institutions include many or most of the best minds in this country. Consistently I found at M.I.T. that the radicals were "A" students, primarily in the natural sciences, not humanities. As in the past, today's leading professors are also the more socially concerned. In the older generation, they were Einstein, Morrison, Oppenheimer...
...speech and seek peace in Southeast Asia through two means-Vietnamization and negotiation. The U.S., Nixon reports, has made progress at the former, but not at the latter. Nor does Nixon see any signs of an impending Paris breakthrough, though he remains cautiously hopeful. By implication, Nixon's steadfast support for the present Saigon regime prevents any realistic hope of negotiation. Still, the President insists that the U.S. is ready to negotiate on any point but self-determination for the people of South Viet Nam. "The key to peace lies in Hanoi...
...believed that his job allowed him little time to get to know his students. With his strong sense of personal morality, Pusey stoutly defended the rights-and jobs-of Harvard professors who drew the wrath of his onetime Appleton neighbor, Joe McCarthy. But in a different situation, his steadfast independence and his instinct to protect Harvard proved costly. Faced last spring with the S.D.S. occupation of University Hall, Pusey refused to negotiate and angered a large part of the Harvard community when he summoned police without consulting faculty and student leaders...
...whom his steadfast wife assured "I know that you are as brave as any of the 35 Presidents" might have been brave enough to let the record stand. Or at least, if the record must be edited, let Lady Bird...
...Hicks has been a steadfast opponent of the racial imbalance laws in Massachusetts which forbid school enrollments more than 50 per cent non-white. She also has stubbornly opposed proposals to remedy racial imbalance in the city of Boston through busing...