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Pusey-who is retiring from the University next summer to become President of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-begins his 21-page report with a two-page catalogue of last year's various political demonstrations and actions, "an almost unbroken series of efforts by various dissident groups to create campus disturbances...
...crowded criminal court last week, it was difficult to distinguish the prosecution from the defense. Both sides, in a torrent of rhetoric, apparently considered the U.S. the real culprit and not Defendant Raffaele Minichiello. A lance corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps, Minichiello, now 21, set a still unbroken record for long-distance skyjacking in October 1969, when he forced the crew of a TWA jet to fly 6,900 miles from California to Rome. At the time, Minichiello was AWOL and fleeing from a court-martial; he had broken into a PX because, he said, the Corps...
...have in Cambridge a sweet, sound every-day college for girls; and that college is beginning to get a good every-day endowment. In that endowment lies today the hopes of those who would still preserve unimpaired the almost unbroken tradition of Harvard virility." - Barrett Wendell of the Faculty Committee on Relations with Radcliffe College...
...Roman Catholics have only recognized the validity of their own "holy orders," and those of the Eastern Orthodox churches, on the grounds that only in the Roman and Eastern traditions has the ministry been handed down through unbroken "apostolic succession." The recognition of a valid Lutheran ministry would apparently be based on a different understanding of apostolic succession, one which sees it as a continuity of doctrine and practice in conformity with the Gospel...
...kidnapings and the killing are a climax to the troubles that have been plaguing Uruguay, which once was the paradise of Latin America. While its neighbors suffered from coups and economic chaos, Uruguay remained a sort of Latin Switzerland. It had an unbroken record of freely elected Presidents, and no dictator has ever been able to shoulder his way to power. It also established the most complete and extravagant welfare system of any country in the Americas. Uruguay's wealth, however, was based almost exclusively on continued world demand for meat and wool. When that demand slackened...