Word: wishfully
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Having run its full five-year course, the Italian Parliament dissolved itself last week, opening up a fresh season of politics, Italian-style. No fewer than 73 political parties have already registered their wish to run in the May 19 elections for seats in a new Parliament, among them such far-out groups as the World Sacred Idealism Party, the Movement for Divorce & Solidarity and the Friends of the Moon. As usual, however, the elections will be primarily a collision between Italy's two largest parties: the Christian Democrats and the Communists...
Died. Charles Chaplin Jr., 42, eldest son of the comedian; of a heart attack; in Hollywood. Bedeviled by his name ("Sometimes I wish I was called James"), Charles Jr, never rose above bit parts in such dreadfuls as High School Confidential and Teacher Was a Sex Pot. His one claim to recognition was a 1960 biography, My Father, Charlie Chaplin, a sometimes fatuous but often illuminating account of life with daddy...
...Their absence won't lessen the poll's accuracy," Harris explained because the military academies represent only one-tenth of one per cent of the nation's students. "But we wish they could have had a chance to express their opinions," he said...
...final point is simply this: If you wish to dispose of ROTC as a protest to the Vietnam war as was implied in the article of the 15th, please have the editorial courage to say so and defend the argument on those grounds. Your inaccuracies and quibbling on the technicalities of University integrity serve only to devalue the worth of your editorial page and obscure the real issue you are concerned with. Ronald T. Luke...
Harvard students should have the opportunity to receive military training while in college if they wish it, just as they are able to participate in the running of a newspaper or the organization of a slum community. The University has always felt that these last activities are extra-curricular. ROTC also should be an extra-curricular activity...