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...June of the third year, and millionaires once again are at play on the high seas off Newport, R.I., a harbor town that smells strongly of salt water and money, the yachtsman's favorite aromas. Seven small navies have arrived from five stubborn countries, the largest assault force in 132 years, and are fighting it out among themselves for the right to challenge for the America's Cup, a symbol of U.S. ingenuity, or treachery, or both, that is bolted snugly, smugly, or both, to a heavy oak slab in the West 44th Street rumpus room...
...issues which sparked student activism this year showed just how much time has passed since that landmark era. Students who find themselves toe-to-toe with the University on any issue with moral overtones have, indeed, tended to see themselves as part of a grand tradition of morality fighting stubborn bureaucracy--a tradition whose tools include rallies, sit-ins and hunger strikes--even when their current causes barely resemble those of the tumultuous times a when Harvard and actually seemed swayable. But the year also offered a constructive new way to bridge that gap--a promising and worthy scheme...
...MOST PART, these cases are not cut and dried, administrators can muster reasonable arguments for officially differing with students. But by making unnecessary and irrelevant comments and taking stubborn stands on trivial matters such as listing minority events, the administration hinders attempts at what could otherwise become meaningful dialogue. The only alternative quickly becomes demonstrations, marches, rallies and other timeworn methods of student protest...
Paradoxically, the sign that the Sandinistas might be budging came as the Administration was facing an increasingly stubborn Congress over the persistent question of whether the U.S. should be financing the contras at all. Many Congressmen think not. Their concern was heightened last week by the assassination of Lieut. Commander Albert Schaufelberger in the Salvadoran capital of San Salvador. But there is growing anxiety among other members of Congress that they may be blamed if Central America goes Communist. Before last week's assassination of Commander Schaufelberger, the House Intelligence Committee voted to cut off U.S. covert...
...show into Archie Bunker's Place. But times had changed, and with few social bubbles left to burst, the program drifted into a tame sitcom limbo that disappointed old fans and failed to win new ones. It seemed to be kept alive through dint of sheer stubborn will by O'Connor, who, as star, producer and sometime writer and director, reportedly received as much as $5 million a season. Last week CBS canceled Archie Bunker. The show will be missed nowhere near as much as the character it was built around. Archie was a tortured prisoner...