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...time as undergraduates learning a common language by which they can communicate with each other. If successful, the liberal education will develop a lawyer's view of life, his tolerance for other people and other life styles, and his sense of where this world should be going. To know wither we are going, it is essential to know where we have been...
...associates in a simple lab, could hope to produce a fundamental breakthrough. Now most major discoveries require teams of highly trained researchers and such expensive equipment as electron microscopes, high-speed computers, atom smashers or radio telescopes In other words, without Government funds, pure science is bound to wither...
...cripple the Communist war effort, President Johnson acceded to the military's request to knock out the country's oil supplies. Admiral Ulysses S. Grant Sharp Jr. had predicted that such action "would either bring the enemy to the conference table or cause the insurgency to wither." During the summer of 1966, U.S. warplanes destroyed at least 70% of North Viet Nam's stationary oil-storage capacity, but the destruction had no discernible effect on Communist morale or war effort. Meanwhile, a distinguished group of 47 U.S. scientists met in a seminar at Wellesley, Mass., under...
Marx's prediction to the contrary, the American state remains intact as ever, but one of its minor irritants has begun to wither away. Harvard's rule placing a two-year limit on Faculty leaves of absence has been stretched beyond recognition for the benefit of Henry A. Kissinger, President Nixon's advisor for national security affairs...
SINGAPORE (DSNI)-Is counter-insurgency going multilateral? A confidential Asian Development Bank study on Vietnam suggests the possibility. The classified report predicts the Vietnam war will wither to a "low level insurgency" by 1973 with 25,000 American military men remaining in the country and multilateral assistance complementing U.S. aid on an expanded scale...