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...Among the recordings: street sounds, the cry of a newborn baby, the hum of a string quartet, the roar of a Saturn rocket lifting off. Also included is a greeting written and read by President Carter. "This is a present from a small, distant world," his message begins. "A token of our sounds, our science, our images, our music, our thoughts and our feelings. We are attempting to survive our time so we may live into yours. We hope some day, having solved the problems we face, to join a community of galactic civilizations. This record represents our hope...
Under court order to produce a lineup of people who resemble an actual suspect, police usually scour the area for other offenders, or enlist police trainees or even idlers to help out-sometimes for a token payment. In this case, authorities were looking for two gunmen who had robbed Racine's Union Savings & Loan Assn. of $4,782 on Dec. 30. They had managed to arrest a single suspect, Robert Brantley. Officers hoped that two female tellers would pick Brantley from among six young blacks in the lineup. To the authorities' astonishment, both tellers identified not Brantley...
Since 1953, the Shah's rule has become increasingly repressive. During the regime's first decade, opposition parties were allowed to exist, although the Shah controlled the country firmly. In 1963, the Shah's so-called "White Revolution"--including a token land reform program that has failed to change the grossly inequitable distribution of wealth, and the massacre of thousands of members of the opposition--made Iran a one-party state, removing all traces of democratic government. Like every shah before him, the current Shah claims to experience visions granting him absolute authority over his people...
DEAN ROSOVSKY, in his March approval of the revised Fox housing plan, did a great disservice to both the Quad and the University as a whole. Rosovsky demonstrated that Quad residents will remain second-class citizens of the University when he made only token efforts to improve the Quad's insufficient physical plant, despite the University's $30 million fundraising drive for the expanded Soldiers Field Complex. Rosovsky also blithely ignored the best available solution to the housing problem--University-wide four-year housing. And the Dean's methods in implementing the plan show a lack of real concern...
...least have made an honest effort to face the challenge presented by inadequate facilities at the Quad. Instead Fox's plan as approved by Rosovsky ignores the hard facts of Quad life. Rosovsky's agreement to construct an addition to the South House dining hall and several other token improvements in the Quad environment, such as the opening of the Currier House art and woodworking facilities to use by all the Quad's residents, are only weak palliatives designed to sell the Fox plan to Quad students. It became clear that no genuine attempt to equalize the Quad...