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...into one dorm and pay $10 for the privilege. "A security consideration," says Radcliffe brass. Yet University police don't take off the week for a Bermuda jaunt. And most head residents stay in Cambridge anyway. We're all for keeping the girls safe over term-break. But why uproot them so? And why that...
Daniel's Passage. His assurances were hardly enough. A Colored who becomes a card-carrying white must uproot himself and his family from home, job, friends and kin to enter a world in which he may never be fully accepted. In one recent case, Edward Raubenheimer, a relatively well-to-do Cape Town Colored school principal, learned that his older, less successful brother Daniel had been reclassified as white at age 67. White status was simultaneously conferred on Daniel's wife, who is the daughter of a Colored woman and a white salesman, and their four children...
...Cambridge City Council has gone on record at periodic intervals as opposing any route for the Belt which would uproot large numbers of residents...
Four years ago, Grant and his psychiatrist tried using LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide, a powerful drug with effects similar to mescaline) to help uproot Cary's deepest psychological problems. Often called instant analysis, LSD cleans out the subconscious like lye in a septic tank. Impressed with his own progress under its influence, Grant delivered a confessional lecture at U.C.L.A.: "I was a self-centered boor," he told an audience of fascinated students. "I was masochistic and only thought I was happy. When I woke up and said, 'There must be something wrong with me,' I grew...
Each year U.S. universities invoke the iron rule of retirement to uproot deadwood professors. In this proper process, some rare and ageless men are always lost - activists who spurned ivory towers, scholars who truly enlarged human under standing, professors who really professed...