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...they are begging for guidance, for a firm hand. Their fathers had failed them. University administrators and officials who yield to their unreasonable demands are also failing them. To these "revolutionaries," permissiveness and overindulgence by both parents and society is not a sign of love, but of weakness and decay...
Disturbing Decay. Earlier this month, Marine Commandant Leonard Chapman issued a message to all Marine commands, ordering, among other things, that officers hear complaints of discrimination promptly. Chapman dictated that the clenched-fist gesture of Black Power be permitted as a "sign of recognition and unity," but not as a gesture of defiance of authority...
...racial problems "are almost unheard of among Marines in combat." He was at least technically correct. Neither Marines nor members of other services have been at one another's throats in the battle lines -survival requires total attention. Outside of the war zone, there has been a disturbing decay in racial relations among U.S. troops. To probe how deeply the new militance runs in the military, TIME Correspondent Wallace Terry spent six months interviewing black troops in Viet Nam. His report...
...Congratulations! Your article, "The Message of History's Biggest Happening" [Aug. 29], does a superb job of furthering the moral decay of this nation. The photograph, "Boys and Girls Relate in a Nearby River," was just a little too much for my 31-year-old "traditional values." When I was their age, we "related" with our clothes...
...addition to the argon that resulted from potassium decay, Schaeffer found an abundance of solar argon-and of helium and neon-that has collected during eons of bombardment by the sun. These particles were lodged only in the surface of the rocks, where they had remained undisturbed for hundreds of millions of years-more evidence that the moon's exterior has not undergone any recent upheavals...