Word: approaching
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...from Latin America was distinctly mixed. Said former Argentine President Arturo Illia, who was deposed by the military in 1966: "It is a concrete diagnosis, but not a cure. The situation is more serious than is expressed by Nixon." Brazilian Economist Roberto Campos was pleased with Nixon's approach, which was less condescending than past U.S. attitudes. "The U.S. today is much less certain that it understands the realities of life in Latin America," said Campos. "That is a healthy recognition." More characteristic, however, was the complaint aired by the Chilean paper Clarin, which claimed that "frustration...
...refused to explain the dismissal. The state regents later said Hale had been fired for "excessive drinking in public," a charge Hale denied. >At the University of Houston, an S.D.S. statement that it would "no longer tolerate" military recruiting on campus backfired. A small S.D.S. group that tried to approach an Army recruiting table on Thursday ran into hundreds of right-wing students chanting "S.D.S., go to hell." The rightists hustled the radicals off campus in a melee that ended with S.D.S. Organizers Douglas Bernhardt and Barti Haile, both nonstudents, being treated at Ben Taub Hospital for cuts and bruises...
Students, teachers, England and the world have altered considerably in 35 years. But Brookfield School remains a tranquil antechamber to gentlemanhood, where the master now reigns in the person of Peter O'Toole. Discarding the shy, dry Donat approach, O'Toole becomes his own man, a conflicted figure changing imperceptibly from instructor to institution, like an elm turning, cell by cell, into petrified rock. The result is one of the slyest and subtlest performances in his career...
Interdisciplinary Approach...
...other hand, supporters of the split point out that the nature of the department's interdisciplinary approach is unfavorable to other fields of learning. "Economists, political scientists, and historians take a very dim view of working with psychologists," explained Alex Inkeles, professor of Social Relations. "The stronger ties that sociology should have with these fields tend to be muted by the present arrangement...