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Died. Dr. Kurt Hahn, 88, stern, idealistic German educator for whom moral and physical fitness were as important as academic prowess; in Hermannsburg, West Germany. Hahn's pedagogical plan called for cold showers, periods of silence, and exacting physical trials to harden bodies and toughen minds in the struggle for survival during perilous times. Hahn founded his first school in 1920 at Germany's Salem Castle. When the Nazis forced him to flee 13 years later, he went to the bleak northeast coast of Scotland and started the Gordonstoun School, where Britain's Princes Philip, Charles...
...that SALT I could enable the Soviets to attain this advantage, some Senators demanded that SALT II redress the U.S.'s numerical inferiority. With the American superiority in the number of warheads, the demand was plainly unreasonable and unrealistic; it was intended, at least by some Senators, to toughen the U.S. bargaining position. The Soviets responded with a tough line of their own. Their negotiators reportedly declared that they would agree to numerical missile equality with the U.S. only if Washington 1) removed its nuclear-submarine bases from Scotland and Spain, 2) reduced the number of its aircraft carriers...
Harrison is to stay on as editor for at least three years, but Peretz does not plan to be an absentee owner. He thinks that NR must toughen its liberalism with more aggressive, sharply argued opinions on issues now being exploited by conservatives-the Nixon Administration's defense and arms-limitation policies, Henry Kissinger's detente maneuvers with Peking and Moscow. Says Peretz: "There is a conservative offensive in this country, and we don't know how to respond...
...Israeli position will harden as a direct consequence of the loss of blood," Safran said Monday and the Arab position is likely to toughen, too, in the wake of Israeli air strikes deep into Arab territory...
...Chief Justice did concede that many current state statutes are so vaguely drawn that they do not give clear notice of what is banned. The court, therefore, was careful to toughen the standards for anti-obscenity laws in an effort to prevent imprecise or overly extensive statutory language. Only "works which depict or describe sexual conduct" can be outlawed, said the court, and that conduct "must be specifically defined by state...