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...even more alienating than his confidence in the system was the failure of Kennedy to commit himself to any definite political action in the elections...
Other freshmen are considering taking off a semester to enlist in the National Guard, which would commit them to a four to six month tour of duty and later service during summer vacations...
...plan originated last spring in the Subcommittee on Freshman Life of the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life. It does not commit freshmen to living in any particular House after this year...
...with the authorities anxious to preserve legal forms, an increasingly common punishment for dissenters is confinement to mental hospitals that are often jails in disguise. Technically, Soviet courts cannot sentence a man to prison or labor camp unless he has violated the criminal code. Health officers, however, can commit anyone to "emergency psychiatric hospitalization" if his behavior is simply deemed abnormal. "Why bother with political trials," a leading Soviet forensic psychiatrist reportedly has said, "when we have psychiatric clinics...
...money began flowing in reasonably well, considering that Democratic contributors are reluctant to commit themselves to one candidate so early in what may prove to be a very crowded race. After a series of private meetings with potential backers in Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco, Muskie came away with pledges that would put him over his goal for the trip: $150,000. One night, 250 guests-including such luminaries as Henry Fonda, Burt Lancaster and Roosevelt Grier-paid $250 each to dine at the Beverly Hills Hotel with Ed and his wife Jane...