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Yntema was considered the key to Harvard's success in the Eastern Swimming Championships to be held at Yale next month. The Crimson's hopes will be considerable dimmed by his absence...
Wallace moved into Massachusetts with one solid success under his belt. Though his support was supposed to have eroded in the Deep South, there was no sign of it in the Mississippi caucuses at the end of January. Wallace won 45% of the precinct vote and will probably pick up much of the 27% uncommitted bloc. His nearest rival was former Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter, who received only 14%-less than expected by his backers. Sargent Shriver, who is remembered for the programs he initiated as director of the poverty program, cut into Carter's constituency, winning an estimated...
Diplomatic Success. Any such negotiations are at best in the distant future. For now, U.S. experts fear that Assad may be so flushed with diplomatic success that he will become increasingly intransigent. "He may try to ride things out until the U.S. is ready to take a more sweeping crack at the problem," observed a State Department Middle East expert. This means that Kissinger's step-by-step diplomacy may, for the moment, be dead. Assad has said that Syria will refuse to attend a Geneva conference unless the P.L.O. is also given its own seat; these conditions...
...Syrians stabilized a political situation that they themselves made and imposed on Lebanon through the full control of the Palestinians. The Syrians achieved their intermediate goal. Under the threat of invasion from the P.L.A., the leaders there accepted it. The Syrian success in Lebanon shows how difficult it is to move toward peace...
...becomes accepted overnight. "In fact," writes Bell, the chief characteristic of the Establishment "is its eagerness to repudiate its own existence." The condition of art is echoed in politics and the economy. Capitalists have lost faith in their enterprise and are listless about defending it. Capitalism's very success has created a paradox: hard work, discipline and organization make capitalism successful. But the goods it abundantly produces encourage a mindless pursuit of hedonism. Capitalism is thus deprived of any "moral or transcendent ethic." There is a further paradox. The greater the economic growth under capitalism, the higher the expectations...