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Tatitrallay is planning on knee surgery this summer and should be able to fence with abandon, his best style, next year. "I think he's going to be a good captain," fencer Don Valentine said. "I think that we will have a good team nest year, and that will help...
...freshman bouts are concerned, be sure to circle the unlimited match between Oscar DePriest and Sandy Tennant on your program; it should be the best. Two real bulls, who hit with complete abandon, will lock horns and the lumpy mat at the IAB should have numerous visitors...
...that this weariness was "hastened by the anguish of the Viet Nam War." But he warns that "we cannot let the pendulum swing in the other direction, sweeping us toward an isolationism which could be as disastrous as excessive zeal." Nor can U.S. policy change too precipitously. "We cannot abandon friends, and must not transfer burdens too swiftly. We must strike a balance between doing too much and thus preventing self-reliance and doing too little and thus undermining self-confidence...
...signals from city hall remain confusing, which is probably just the way John Lindsay wants it. Deputy Mayor Dick Aurelio, who ran Lindsay's uphill re-election campaign in 1969, dropped a hint that his boss might want to abandon the Republicans and try for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1972. At a Queens political dinner, Aurelio said: "Those of us who believe deeply in John Lindsay have adopted the slogan: 'We'd rather switch than fight.' " A day later Tom Morgan, the mayor's press man, dutifully shot down Aurelio's trial balloon...
...sophisticated science to solve his problems and, at the same time, ensure that science does not turn on its master and destroy him. He suggests that society has little choice other than to press on vigorously in scientific research; he rejects the notion that the only options are to abandon science and become primitive, or continue it and be destroyed. Lessing echoes the warning of Biochemist Philip Handler, president of the National Academy of Sciences: "If we forswear more science and technology, there can be no cleaning up cities, no progress in mass transportation, no salvage of our once beautiful...