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...Advisory Board should remain flexible and open to the suggestions of many groups at Harvard and in the community. Instead, Andrew F. Brimmer, chairman of the board, has issued a hastily written, ill-conceived reply to proposals submitted by the DuBois Institute Student Coalition. Brimmer's letter is a vain attempt to shield the board from debate and potential controversy...
...human, to create a new family. But the conflicts between the three stubbornly become sharper and sharper, and the moments of unity shorter and shorter. By the end of the book, the letters convey no bitterness but only a sense of disappointment and exhaustion. Not all was in vain, though. On the contrary, there seems to be something very precious even in that shared disappointment. As one Maria says in her final letter...
INDOCHINA. The swift and almost uncontested Communist offensive in South Viet Nam raised an unsettling question: Had 50,000 American lives and $150 billion in U.S. aid been spent in vain? The government of Nguyen Van Thieu was proving much weaker than had been thought, and the fast fallback of his forces approached an all-out rout. Obviously, U.S. intelligence about Thieu and his powers had been grievously faulty. First, the former imperial capital of Hue fell to the Communists; then so did five more provinces, bringing the total under their control to 13 (out of 44). But the real...
...absolutely vital to that cause's success. The musketeers (Michael York, Oliver Reed, Richard Chamberlain, Frank Finlay), for example, never stop for a moment to observe - as Lester does - that the French king (Jean Pierre Cassel) for whom they endlessly risk life and limb is a vain and idle popinjay. Their opponents, the servants of Cardinal Richelieu, never seem to notice that their man (deftly played by Charlton Heston) does not seem to be scheming for any useful purpose: his nature simply demands that he spend a certain number of hours each day weaving complicated plots...
...member describes as "searching their souls, trying to make the right decision." Committee sentiment seems almost evenly split, with prospects in the full Senate equally uncertain if an aid bill reaches the floor. Unless some aid measure also emerges from the House, however, any Senate approval will be in vain. In practical terms, the Administration's best bet seems to lie in getting approval to shift existing Pentagon funds to keep ammunition flowing to Cambodia rather than in seeking new money...