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Church was the only place Mrs. Hall had to go to--the shops delivered. The station was not far either, nor was a tolerable day school for the girls. It was a land of facilities, where nothing had to be striven for, and success was indistinguishable from failure...
Since Nixon took office, Washington has striven for some sort of voluntary limit on textile imports, and Japanese textile firms after considerable bargaining have agreed to most of the U.S. demands. But the Japanese businessmen do not want the agreement to take the form of a constricting government-to-government arrangement; the U.S. textile industry, to which the Nixon Administration has granted virtual veto power on the terms, will settle for nothing less. Last week the White House, as a result, let it be known that it intends to take action. The U.S. set Oct. 1 as the deadline...
Since Mao Tse-tung established the People's Republic in 1949, Maxwell maintains, China has striven not to expand but to legitimize its borders. With barely a quibble, Peking negotiated border agreements accepting the postwar status quo with Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal, Mongolia and Burma. The author believes that the Chinese were ready to settle the fuzzy frontier between India and Tibet in roughly the same way. But Nehru was supersensitive to charges from the Indian right that his policy of nonalignment meant "appeasement" of Communism. Gradually, Gandhi's white-capped protege became a hardhat on the Tibetan border...
While exactly what "hodge-podge of lesser services" implies remains hazy, it can be taken with some certainty to mean activities which are not centrally connected to the academic function of the University. Included in this category would be organizations such as PBH which have striven over the years to achieve an active involvement and rapport with the Cambridge and Boston communities...
...national insistence on putting high school graduates indiscriminately into the isolated academic atmosphere of traditional colleges and universities. Students feel "obsolete," he says, because "society keeps the next generation too long in a state of dependence, too long in terms of a sense of place that one has personally striven for and won. To be adolescent means that one has reached (and even passed) the age of puberty, but must nevertheless postpone full adulthood till long beyond what any other period in history has ever considered reasonable. Students want, essentially, those group therapeutic experiences that will help them feel they...