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...seminars, though originally aimed at non-Honors concentrators, are now valuable because they can "strengthen the intellectual life of a House" at all levels, Monro said. He commented that the overall goals of the seminar program, such as furthering Faculty-student contact, did not depend on the seminars' being oriented toward one particular student group...
...Situation Stabilized." To find out what more needs to be done to strengthen Diem's troops, already being advised and trained in counterguerrilla tactics by some 4,000 U.S. military personnel. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara flew to Hawaii last week for firsthand reports from his Pacific military leaders. After the conference, McNamara reported: "The situation now seems to be stabilized in so far as Communist advances are concerned.'' This in itself was a big improvement over the Communists' long record of village-by-village victory in South Viet Nam. Before going to Hawaii for the meeting...
...Bryant had just come, and all they thought about was football"), he quit in his sophomore year and joined the Marines. Assigned to Marine Corps Schools in Quantico, Va., Uelses began training in earnest, determined to break the elusive 16-ft. barrier. He worked each day with weights to strengthen his arm, shoulder and back muscles; each night he drove 50 miles to practice vaulting in the University of Maryland's indoor pit. "I never really had a coach," he says. "I just picked up little technical things by watching other vaulters. I tried everything. What felt good...
...Welch, far from repenting such absurdities as his 1958 attack on Eisenhower as a Com-symp, is as loose a talker as ever. To Welch, for instance, the Bay of Pigs was a theatrical performance jointly sponsored by Castro and "his friends in the U.S. Government" in order to strengthen the Communist hold on Cuba. Not only the U.S. State Department but also the Central Intelligence Agency is Communist-riddled...
...danger of this weekend's venture. The probable growth of an illusion that this constitutes an effective style of action in the American context is almost equally serious. Against these weighs the vital consideration that the march is a positive action by the groups involved, which will help to strengthen their organization and political effectiveness in other fields, and extend their influence among those who are fundamentally sympathetic. As a political action, the march is unwise, dangerous, perhaps irresponsible; as a move vital to the effective organization of those who support its political aims, the march justifies itself...