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...class. Fund Chairman Richard Lombard also reported a "financial vote of confidence" by some Dartmouth men who had refused to contribute for as long as five years. Denver University's Chan cellor Maurice Mitchell, who expelled 39 sit-in demonstrators last year, recently inspired a torrent of admiring letters-and donations-when he vowed to ignore further student threats. Denver's average alumni gift increased from $30 to $46.77, while overall donations rose...
...static style who has in recent years been a flashily successful practitioner of that mournful art. His first book, The Interrogation, a kind of Krapp's First Tape, won France's third most prestigious literary award, the Prix Renaudot. His second novel, The Flood, a further torrent of talent and eloquence put mainly to the purposes of adolescent simpering, was also drowned with praise. But it is doubtful if any amount of critical bolstering will be able to shore up his latest novel, which reads a bit like an endless progressive-rock lyric in search of a psychedelic...
From powerful Chinese-built radio transmitters somewhere in Albania, a torrent of anti-Soviet diatribe pours forth each day. Though Russia, Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria try to jam the broadcasts, a large part of Eastern Europe can readily hear Peking's attempts to turn the East-bloc countries against their Soviet Big Brother. Meanwhile, even as the Chinese-controlled station denounces "the Soviet renegades" in eight Eastern European languages, the Russians are steadily building up their own presence throughout Asia, an area that China regards as its own sphere of influence...
...mere 2% of all students are wreckers who aim to "radicalize" the campuses even if some universities are destroyed in the process. Harvard's Dean Franklin Ford describes the varying degrees of militancy as a series of concentric circles; most students are mainly onlookers (see chart). Unfortunately, the torrent of spring-term disorders has clearly put dozens of campuses in dou ble jeopardy. Repressive state legislators are on the war path; so are vigilante-minded conservative students. Unless moderates intervene, campus freedom and evolutionary reform may well be sacrificed to left and right extremists...
...meager 1968 trade surplus, only $726 million last year compared with $7.8 billion as recently as 1964, is an other painful result of inflation. Although the total volume of U.S. exports actually rose, climbing domestic price levels attracted a torrent of imports. If some $2.5 billion of U.S. exports paid for by Government aid are excluded, the nation actually suffered a trade deficit last year...