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...HCUA distributed library questionnaires in Lamont between Jan. 18 and Feb. 1. Its conclusions were based on 2225 valid responses. The poll showed that freshmen lead the college in using Lamont. One-third of the students answering the questionnaire were members of the class of '66, and about one-fifth belonged to each of the other classes...
...Whether democracy can prevail in the great upheaval of our time is a valid question. We have good reason to know how clumsy, slow, inefficient and costly it is compared to the celerity, certainty and secrecy of absolutism. But the important thing is that it has survived. The important thing is that even the absolutists masquerade as democrats; even the military and quasi-military dictatorships strive in the name of democracy to manage the public business. And all of them say that authoritarianism is only a necessary transition to democracy . . . The enemies of freedom, whatever the magnificent ends they propose...
...Large masses are going to college for reasons that may not be valid," Leighton declared. "The real advantage of going to college is not making more money and getting a better...
...only valid base on which to build the New World republic was one characterized by democracy and equality. The tragedy of this republic was that as long as human slavery existed its base had a fallacy that made it both incongruous and specious." So writes this year's visiting William Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions at Cambridge University, and only an occasional reader will sense that John Hope Franklin is himself a descendant of slaves. "I have maintained my objectivity," says Franklin, "but it takes some doing...
...Offutt Air Force Base. High SAC officers throw a switch that opens an electronic lock on the missile flight. They call the two control officers. The two, sitting 15 ft. apart, pick up separate telephones to receive, decode and authenticate the orders. Each must agree that it is a valid command. They go through a launch sequence in unison, break lead seals on their console buttons. The birds still will not fire until another two-man crew in another capsule sends a concurring signal. Finally, any of five control centers in each squadron can push a switch labeled "inhibit...