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Many of us have experienced the same transition from monosexual to coeducational living. For both Harvard and Yale much of the trauma which Women at Yale catalogues is ancient history. We have long since learned to eat scrambled eggs and read our papers at the same tables...
...notion that the U.S. had finally achieved maturity in a confident and realistic appraisal of its role in world affairs was badly damaged last week. Out of the Viet Nam trauma, the nation, it was assumed, had learned the limitations of its power. The Nixon Doctrine sensibly equated goals with means, pledging economic and military aid-but not automatic U.S. military involvement-to those countries whose stability appeared vital to peace and to the basic interests of the U.S. President Nixon's personal ventures in summitry via Peking and Moscow were clearly an overdue recognition of global realities...
Miss Oates' vehicle for this heavy freight is Dr Jesse Vogel, a character who passes through a succession of other characters like a phantom walking through walls. Jesse Vogel resembles Jules in them. He possesses a sense of personal destiny that has been developed by trauma, unusual circumstance and a mysterious, glacial will power...
...trauma of Pearl Harbor led directly to the establishment of the wartime Office of Strategic Services and, in 1947, the powerful Central Intelligence Agency. Today the CIA, with a budget believed to be over $500 million, has 15,000 employees in Washington and several thousand agents abroad. Moreover, the CIA is but one of nine major U.S. intelligence-gathering organizations,* though...
...color photographs of Richard Nixon, looking flushed, happy and youthful. Abstractions come easily in such surroundings, and Bunker, looking tired but still trim and sage at 77, was nothing if not abstract as he fielded the questions of the testy, aggressive reporters, and discussed his reaction to the political trauma of the past fortnight. ∙ The reporters asked many of the right questions, and felt that they received almost none of the right answers. Had he offered Minh and Ky millions of dollars to run? Had he urged Thieu to resign, as Ky suggested? Would he himself soon be retiring...