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Mary I. Bunting, Radcliffe's President who is currently completing a one-year term with the Atomic Energy Commission, delivered the Commencement address. She said that her year in Washington had served to strengthen her "conviction about the importance of thinking and working in an international framework for the benefit of mankind...
Pusey said that the middle group between timidity and aggressiveness could be found with "awareness, knowledge, and understanding, and concern. These are qualities which Harvard would like to have helped to strengthen...
Petri also cited the need for Republicans to strengthen their appeal to young professionals and to take the lead in reexamining and re-organizing State constitutions...
...year, the health ministry has done practically nothing to publicize the cancer reports. Turkey's newspapers patriotically contend that smoking of artificially flavored foreign cigarettes may be harmful but that there is no danger in enjoying the state monopoly's smokes, made from "pure" Turkish tobacco. To strengthen its own depleted treasury, the Algerian government is stepping up production in cigarette factories. South Korea protects its tobacco monopoly by forbidding the sale of foreign smokes; offenders are sometimes arrested right on the streets...
These touches are funny, and when they work smoothly, add sparkle to the show. But they don't attack the real problem. They strengthen the sack, when they should ask the lady inside to reduce. Ubu Roi needs some ruthless cutting and directional pacing. The Quincy House Dining Room isn't big enough to take two and a half hours of shouting. Have the lady skip a meal and rest quietly for a minute, the she'll bounce over the finish line ahead of everybody...