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...Brussels. In the interim between the semiannual sessions, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia had shattered all illusions of an imminent accommodation with the Russians. Gone were the pleasant prospects of further military cutbacks in the budgets of member countries or of a drawdown in force levels. In the wastebasket were the blueprints for converting NATO into a nonmilitary instrument of East-West bridge building. The situation that now faced the alliance was bluntly put by NATO Supreme Commander Lyman Lemnitzer, who had doubted détente and disapproved of the military dilution of NATO all along. The ten Soviet divisions...
...same: actors pretend to be Air Force bombardiers who flirt with the mimicry of death only to find that, one by one, they are really being killed on their outlandish make-believe bombing missions over Constantinople and Minnesota. The plot might well have been retrieved from Pirandello's wastebasket. Broadway these days is full of preachers who thunder that war is evil and that racial prejudice is hateful, but who seem not to have the slightest compunction about discrimination against good drama...
That still left each of the 250 S.D.S. chapters free to do its own thing-including a little selfcriticism. One delegate strode down the aisle with a wastebasket on his head while a companion cried: "I nominate this trash can for national secretary." Workshops at the convention suggested a variety of possibilities, ranging from a concentration on "self-defense and internal security" to "organizing G.I.s" and "forming chapters at backward conservative campuses." If there was one common new goal it was a drive to expand S.D.S. influence in the nation's high schools. The Madison, Wis., chapter will...
...told. In a prep school community of about a thousand where everyone talks about everyone else, this was risky. The administration found out and in the room searches that followed, faculty members found a number of Benzedrex Inhaler tubes, that had been chewed, in a student's wastebasket...
...antics of the Graduate Student Association Council during the past two weeks sound like maneuverings of fifth-grade wastebasket monitors. It is difficult to believe that a group of Harvard graduate students could engage in such petty scheming...