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...almost every action in contemporary America. But it was particularly apt to record last week that he wrote, in 1835, that "the great privilege of the Americans does not consist in being more enlightened than other nations, but in being able to repair the faults they may commit...
Clearly, the civil rights movement will continue to stagnate if it remains a one-issue pressure group. It must now try to encourage Negroes to dissent--in a politically viable manner--from a policy which may commit too many of America's resources to Vietnam indefinitely...
...economy might be far healthier if it were not tied so tightly to Russia, which continues to extract favorable deals from its satellite. Ulbricht in 1965 committed 45% of the country's exports for the following five years to the Soviet Union at ridiculously low prices-an act that caused East German Planning Chief Erich Apel to commit suicide on the day the deal was announced. As a result, East Germany is forced to ship eastward many of the machines that it needs to modernize its own factories and many of the exports that it needs to increase trade...
While the UHS may avert a number of suicides through therapy, it rarely gets to see the students who do commit suicide. "The student who successfully attempts suicide has usually never had any contact with our Psychiatric Service," Blaine said. Thus the UHS has yet to attract some of the most disturbed students on campus...
Pusey's reply did not mean that the University would necessarily surrender membership lists. His response to Senator McCarthy in the early fifties shows he does not lack the courage to stand up to HUAC. In the present case Pusey was unwilling to commit the University until he saw the actual terms of the subpoena. Pusey was probably trying to avoid unnecessary publicity. Also, he may have been concerned with possible repercussions on Harvard's relations with other government committees and agencies...