Word: swansea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Britain has long had a vocal minority of unilateralists on the Left. In the atomic age, war to them seems senseless for any cause-even their own freedom-as is evidenced by their slogan, "I'd rather be Red than dead." Inevitably too, anti-German prejudice persists. In Swansea fortnight ago, 300 marchers demonstrated against the NATO plan to train West German Panzer units in Wales this fall. The real point-that the defense of Berlin is ultimately the defense of Britain-is only now beginning to dawn on the mass of Britons enjoying the summer...
...this change breaks faith with a fellowship far greater than that of one college. The procession of universities stretches from young Swansea through stripling Yale to aging Harvard and continues back through the centuries to ancient Paris and Bologna. When next our President travels to an academic convocation, he must expect to be derided as the man who changed Alma Mater to Foster Mother...
Redbricks abound in able professors, from Leeds's noted Chemist Frederick Dainton to Swansea's Novelist Kingsley (Lucky Jim) Amis. But not all redbrick dons are happy with their "exile" from cozy Oxbridge. Novelist Amis himself is shifting soon to Cambridge. Says Nobel Prizewinner Cecil Frank Powell, head of Bristol's topnotch (cosmic rays) physics department: "We've got Cambridge licked in our department-but Cambridge nevertheless has something we can never match...