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...Shockley in a corner with his portable cassette and he would sit happily, expounding on the virtues of his "Voluntary Sterilization Bonus Plan," oblivious to all. But nobody is willing to do that. Instead college students have this habit of trotting him out under the guise of free speech, to debate something that most of them--like the 600 protesters outside Becton Hall at Yale last week--know already; the non-relativity of racism. The only thing different from Princeton, Indiana or Nebraska was that the Yale hosts concocted even more of a sham...
...hard to imagine where an organization could find a man who was willing to discuss the only the implementation of the bonus plan--its bureaucratic impossibilities, and government meddling. But the YAF reached into its libertarian bullpen and produced the agreeable Rusher. This slow, just plain boring speaker (one Yale dean lunged for a book which he gleefully read upside down for a couple of pages in mid-argument) never moved beyond the gospel according to William F. Buckley. His laissez-faire attitude even extended to his unpolished debating techniques, apparently not improved by his stint...
...Bonus Question...
...best effort came in the fifth game, in which he scored four bonus words. On his first play of the game Williams made "retainer" for 74 points. Three plays later he made "cavalier" for 78 points followed on the next play with the words "frosted" and "tips" for 75 points...
...this time Williams had already put away his opponent, but towards the end of the game he came up with another bonus word, forming "jasmine," with the "a" from "jasmine" preceding a "lost" which was already on the board to put the icing on the victory...