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...EDUCATION. On the most controversial topic affecting his office, campus disorders, Finch has ignored Nixon's campaign rhetoric. Though the Government can take punitive action, cutting off federal funds from colleges affected by disruption and from student dissenters themselves, Finch argues that the universities should be given the widest possible latitude. Repressive federal action, he says, would endanger academic freedom and harm the vast majority of students who have never even thought of joining the S.D.S. He has campaigned energetically against half a dozen repressive bills pending in Congress. "In all truth," he told a congressional committee, "many academic institutions...
Explaining its decision, the 3-to-l FCC majority said that "the widest possible dissemination of information from diverse and antagonistic sources is in the public interest." The philosophy is admirable, of course, but complicated in practice. In many U.S. cities, financially ailing papers only manage to keep publishing because of profitable broadcasting sidelines. The Herald-Traveler is a case in point; in 1967 it gave up its losing afternoon competition with the Boston Evening Globe and concentrated on the morning. But the outcome is still in doubt. Although circulation is climbing, the Herald-Traveler is still lagging behind...
...white, the word could be Asp. Purists like to confine Wasps to descendants of the British Isles; less exacting analysts are willing to throw in Scandinavians, Netherlanders and Germans. At the narrowest, Wasps form a select band of well-heeled, well-descended members of the Eastern Establishment; at the widest, they include Okies and Snopeses, "Holy Rollers" and hillbillies. Wasps range from Mc-George Bundy and Penelope Tree to William Sloane Coffin Jr. and Phyllis Diller. Generously defined, Wasps constitute about 55% of the U.S. population, and they have in common what Columnist Russell Baker calls a "case of majority...
Harvard's score was its highest since 1955, and the 59-point spread was the widest point margin since Harvard's opening game against Maryland...
Much may depend, of course, on Humphrey's choice of a running mate. In order to win in November, he will need the widest possible support in the cities and among the Kennedy-McCarthy factions. Three of the Vice President's favorites for a partner on the ticket are Oklahoma's Senator Fred Harris, Maine's Senator Edmund Muskie, and San Francisco's Mayor Joseph Alioto, a Catholic liberal of whom Humphrey thinks highly. A better known possibility would be Sargent Shriver, who might reconcile some of the Kennedy partisans...