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Having no curfews may seem to the College Council to be tantamount to free sex, flaunting of the libido, and tramping on the flag. Yet in effect Radcliffe has no curfew now. And no one has offered and justification for retaining all the foolish sign-out boxes and secret envelopes to which Cliffies are subjected. Why doesn't the College just scrap the whole business...
Died. General Thomas Dresser White, 64, Air Force Chief of Staff, from 1957 to 1961; of leukemia; in Washington. An unrelenting advocate of ever stronger air power who fought vainly for the Air Force's experimental B70 supersonic bomber, General White felt that rigid reliance on missiles was "tantamount to the Maginot Line" and that the theory of mutual deterrence gave a false sense of invulnerability. "The only safe strategy," he said, was "imbalance-with a vast preponderance on our side...
...that world pressure has crippled the white Rhodesian moderate. Those few citizens who still bother to openly criticize the government are practically powerless. Most others have given up trying or have begun to feel that while their country is being threatened by hostile forces from without, it would be tantamount to treason to voice an opinion against the government. Whereas just this summer I heard a Rhodesian lady say, "If I was an African, I would be right in the very front line fighting," now there is nearly complete white solidarity behind the government...
Inaction, Sartre would point out, is tantamount to acceptance of the status quo. Sartre does not choose Communism because he always grees with Moscow. In fact, he has frequently criticized Moscow. He chooses Communism as Castro chooses it, because to govern is to choose, and this seems the better of two unpleasant alternatives...
...Congressional Palace in the U.S.-guarded International Zone, Imbert snorted that Guzmán was "a Bosch puppet." Imbert refused point-blank to dissolve his own Government of National Reconstruction, argued vehemently that Guzmán would be tantamount to turning the country over to the Communists. Bundy and the others repeatedly pleaded with Imbert to step gracefully aside. Each time the answer was the same. "Why the hell did you bring all those troops here if you weren't going to stop Communism...