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...Toe, Ankle, and Virus...
...some critics, however, the school's moves into new fields is still mere toe-dipping. Many feel that the traditional Harvard Law approach needs modification. Not surprisingly, the students themselves file many of the most damning complaints; last year their organized gripes sparked the forming of a student-faculty committee. It has still to submit specific proposals, but this year, in response to the committee, second-year students for the first time do not have any required courses...
...Suzman says that her basic function is to keep a toe-hold in Parliament, kep the channels of information open, and try to counter the reactionary trend in South Africa. The conflict in Vietnam has taken much of the world attention and odium away from the regime in South Africa, but Mrs. Suzman hopes to keep a minimum of pressure on the government until inflation forces the Afrikaners into economic integration...
...honest, the picture may not be entirely gray. Last year we had a series of second-rate Be-Ins which could blossom into something this year. Furthermore, hippies got a toe-hold in Cambridge real-estate when James Calvert '67 bought a store-front on Mt. Auburn Street and turned it into an exotic coffee-house, restaurant called El Diablo...
Sicily, that tragic outcropping of volcanic rock that looms from the Mediterranean just two miles off Italy's toe, was the prize. Neither the centuries nor Etna, Sicily's restless mountain, had ever let the island sleep. Eight waves of plunderers had overrun it before the Normans arrived in 1061 to add it to their already extensive holdings in southern Italy. In 31 years of savage combat, the Normans subdued the Saracens, who then controlled Sicily, ushering in an era of nationhood and peace the likes of which the island had never known before-nor was ever...