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Since Jefferson's day, the U.S. Senate has had a rule that no member can be absent from its sessions without permission. That quaint regulation is in a class with the custom that a gentleman always dresses for dinner or walks on the lady's curb side...
...busing last week, 17 Senators missed a crucial vote on the antibusing Griffin amendment (see story, page 25). If four Democratic presidential hopefuls -George McGovern, Edmund Muskie, Henry Jackson and Vance Hartke -had been present, the amendment, passed by 43-40, might have been defeated. (Hubert Humphrey was also absent, but he had "paired" with another missing member, Louisiana's Russell Long, so that their offsetting votes would not have mattered...
...only a skirmish in the accelerating war over busing and, since 17 Senators were absent, the Senate position could be altered when the issue is reconsidered with an expected fuller attendance this week. But with President Nixon almost certain to propose antibusing measures of his own, the nation could be on the verge of a major retreat on school integration. However unsatisfactory and sometimes traumatic busing may be, the hard truth remains that until neighborhoods integrate, some transportation of pupils is necessary to achieve racially mixed schools...
...Crimson should be heavily favored this year to win most of the intercollegiate honors. Harvard has not lost a match this season at three, four, five or six. The only loss at two came when captain Dave Fish was absent, and the Crimson's number one, Peter Briggs, was defeated only once...
...absent-minded way the United States in Viet Nam may well have stumbled upon the answer to "wars of national liberation." The effective response lies neither in the quest for conventional military victory nor in the esoteric doctrines and gimmicks of counter-insurgency warfare. It is instead forced-draft urbanization and modernization which rapidly brings the country in question out of the phase in which a rural revolutionary movement can hope to generate sufficient strength to come to power...