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...Institute clearly made a massive mistake in inviting top-level officials who could not feel free to speak frankly. It fell victim to the malady that it is -- or should be -- trying to cure. The gap between academia and government is not simply a problem of professors not appreciating the limitations of realpolitik; it is in part the widespread feeling among students that the government, led by Johnson and preoccupied with Vietnam, cannot be trusted to act wisely or honestly. The C.I.A.'s overactivity here and abroad, and the Administration's double-talk on international crises from the Dominican Republic...
...most schools, tuition charges meet less than 20% of the total cost of instruction. Every year the tuition at public universities inches nearer the level of charges at private schools. Every year, also, there is a widening gap between tuition charges for state residents and those who cross the borders. In effect, outsiders are helping to subsidize local students. Out-of-state tuition at the state schools rose 19.9% in 1965, climbed another 6.5% last year, has reached a median of $782. The number of these schools charging nonresidents more than $900 a year has risen from nine...
...science, the gap between prophecy and fact has narrowed amazingly. The most remote-seeming theories are speedily turned into fact, at least in the lab. Hence the future often seems to arrive with the morning mail-and now, with a flick of the TV dial. A late-season sleeper called The 21st Century, narrated by Walter Cronkite (CBS, Sundays) is bringing forth little weekly chunks of the future as it exists today...
...felt that the battle was won and the precedent irrevocably set more than sixty years ago when the University of Wisconsin gained freedom from interference by state legislature. I have recently learned from conversations with members of several California faculties that a rear-guard action complete with credibility gap is being fought there. The precedent of sixty years ago is apparently too recent a development to have found its way into Governor Reagan's world historical picture...
...Pieces. A bleak story, surely, and an old one. But Helen Hudson, who cast a cold eye on college professors in an excellent first novel, Tell the Time to No One, has a pitiless yet imaginative gaze. To one of her subjects, Sunday in the city is "a great gap surrounded by walls, emptied of one week and not yet filled with the next." To another, "Christmas is a hateful time; the bunting was pretending to tie up a whole city into one cozy bundle. But the string was too slack. Odd pieces like Meyer kept falling...