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...resisted that concept. Last year both faculty and student committees at Yale recommended that the colleges (the Yale equivalent of Harvard houses) take the lead in developing new curriculum. But Yale has nothing like the Gen Ed program, and some argue that part of the function of a college-wide Gen Ed program is to develop new courses on a college-wide basis. They argue that house courses may move Harvard toward the English college system in which appointments and even admissions are decentralized...
...convention endorsement of Humphrey will be swept under in the Nixon landslide. Young liberals like Dick Celeste of Cleveland formerly of the Peace Corps are hoping to build "a tangible issue orientation" within the party. From that base they might work out to local and then state-wide candidate contests. Gilligan, U.S. Rep. Charles Vanik, former astronaut John Glenn, and black Humphreyite Cleveland Mayor Carl Stokes all may play prominent roles in a liberal-based party move to retake the state from a decade of GOP control...
Utah (4): A liquor-by-the-drink issue will bring out a heavy Mormon vote, fattening Nixon's already wide margin...
Spoiling Tactics. General Abrams has abandoned the tactics of his predecessor, General William Westmoreland, who made wide use of brigade and even division-size sweeps that sometimes left rear areas exposed. Instead, Abrams has developed a more flexible, diversified approach that employs smaller roving units. They can watch over more territory and thus spot and spoil enemy buildups in the making. Another hopeful sign: the South Vietnamese army has steadily improved throughout the summer, and its combat units are now fully equipped with U.S. M16s...
...With the aid of a scrupulously neutral staff, they are measured and examined. Between bouts of play and sleep, they study their own lives and the world, life wish and death wish together. Then comes calm choice -a return to the world or death, an end reached through a wide range of means provided by the management. Suicides, Stern observes, are the graduate students of the academy...