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...students express anything but scorn for the Shah and condemnation of his U.S. supporters. Says Phyllis Bennis, a California attorney representing 165 Iranian students who were arrested in a Los Angeles demonstration last week: "Iran has been made a prime market in the Middle East. The Shah is a tool of the U.S. corporations." Others charge that the Shah's modernization program is largely a myth. "People are fighting with the regime because the Shah never did make land reforms," insists Farhad Ehya, a spokesman for the Iranian Student Organization at U.C.L.A. "Whatever he did, he took back. The people...
...Nobel Prize by taking the first step toward a goal that has long been a dream of physicists: the consummation of what Wheeler calls the "fiery marriage" between general relativity-the great theoretical system for studying the large-scale structure of the cosmos-and quantum mechanics-the mathematical tool for analyzing the diminutive world of the atomic nucleus...
...Required meeting with proctors. You do have to go to this, because your proctor will give you your own personal Bursar's Card, which proves that you go to Harvard. It gets you into libraries and dinning halls, not to mention out of trouble with the police. A handy tool, and it'll cost you ten bucks if you lost it. Also at this meeting, you proctor will introduce you to everyone else in your dorm or entryway. And he'll give you the standard rap on drugs and sex. And there will be free beer. 10:00 p.m. Party...
...perfectly fitting, then, that Warwick Cove is the only place in the world where the man who has everything can get lessons in how to handle America's latest aquatic tool (or toy). Sitting on a special launching ramp at the back end of Aquatic, the machine in question suggests a curious cross between a wind-up bathtub toy and a James Bond movie. It is a lemon-hued, one-man submarine, the S 250, a 12-ft.-long, 2,250-lb. vessel that can be run by just about anybody, dive safely to 250 ft., stay submerged...
Lately, segments of press and Parliament in both countries have been less docile and more inclined to see The Act as a cover-up tool. Says Canadian M.P. Gerald Baldwin: "What was conceived of as a weapon of defense against enemies without has become an offensive weapon for governments and bureaucrats to deal with embarrassments within...