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...support for political repression in Vietnam continues. More bizarre details of Nixon's would-be secret police unfold in Washington. And yet, amidst summer breezes, pleasant reunions, and a Triple Crown victory, the school year draws to a close with an unaccustomed quiet that news magazines and conservative Faculty thrive on. The burdens the world bore this year were no less painful, no less unwieldy than the threats to self-determination and human equality to which past years have made us accustomed. But local burdens seem heavier, because after years of radical protest and finally the defeat of even...
INVESTORS who thrive on high risk and fast action have found a hot new favorite that provides more thrills than Natomas Co., Levitz Furniture and other former Wall Street high-flyers ever did in their heyday. Its price has risen so sharply that someone who got into the market seven months ago and played it wisely could have walked away early this month with a bundle 100 times the size of his original investment...
...arithmetic of Bok's selection process thus offers good cause for worry. Those whose recommendations Bok weighs heavily are likely--by sheer force of numbers--to be mostly unresponsive and bureaucratic-minded conservative senior Faculty whose resistance to student participation in decision-making has always been strongest. Those who thrive on the exercise of their own petty power are more concerned with pushing pliable conservative candidates on the Faculty than with prospects at all responsive to student views. Their own passion for manipulation--of fellow Faculty as well as of students--is apparent from the Faculty Council's treatment...
...forcing the needless fuel shortages in this area. Again, it is government-granted privilege to large interests that keeps the prices of medical care, most food, union labor, postal service, transportation, etc., and inf., higher than they would otherwise be in a competitive situation. These interests and the state thrive on theft and find the unlobbied public to be easy prey. How one can expect the state under Nixon's care to be any gentler is beyond...
...Animals thrive long enough on the artificial blood a milky solution of fluorocarbons and industrial emulsifiers for natural blood to regenerate and take over the functions of carrying oxygen and nutritional elements to tissues in the body...