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...reorganization of the Student Government Association. For the past several years, the SGA has suffered from a fuzziness of purpose inevitable at a college where most students feel that few battles remain to be fought. Although SGA meetings could be effective forums for student opinion, they have dwindled into trivial gripe sessions. This year at last there are signs of a change; for this very reason the Student Government Association must be careful to explore all structural possibilities and sound out student views rather than settling for an unimaginative re-working of the existing organization...
...such criticism is trivial. A polished cast enlivens a play that has already withstood the test of time. To begin its second season, the Loeb opens its doors with a bargain...
...rocket, white and spare, and tipped with a Mercury capsule exactly like the one that carried Commander Alan Shepard on his suborbital flight. Inside the building glittered the American Rocket Society's "Space Flight Report to the Nation"-an astonishing exhibition of the phony and the competent, the trivial and the magnificent. Some of the objects on exhibit were miracles of deft design and precision workmanship. Others were not working so well. (A computer kept typing petulantly: "I can't see a thing without my glasses.") Still others would probably never work at all. Mused an engineer about...
...momentum in 1942 with Freeman's Lee's Lieutenants (which still sells thousands of copies a year), and has been surging ever since. In 1961. the Civil War's 100th anniversary year, more than 250 Civil War books have been published, and even the most trivial of them command audiences of around...
...this context the actual questions of whether officers should be permitted to teach the jargon of the right and show "Operation Abolition" to their men seem relatively trivial. What matters is that McNamara's stand has illustrated with remarkable clarity that the government need not be defenseless against the McCarthys and the McCloeds; they are not agents of irresistible currents of history. Adherence to procedures with which every industrial executive is familiar is a useful safeguard against the demoralization of civilian and military officials who believe, as McNamara said after the Thurmond hearings, that the menace of Communism "comes more...