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...returning from the Soviet Union shortly after the revolution, Lincoln Steffens wrote, "I have seen the future, and it works." In the afterglow of the victorious revolution, anything seemed possible; a new age had begun! Even as the groundwork of a socialist economy was being laid, Russian Futurist avant-gardists were experimenting with socialist consciousness...
Today it was misfortune to endure an experience at University Health Services that I feel warrants the attention of the Harvard community. Before I narrate the episode, however, some groundwork should be laid in relation to previous encounters at our services. In the past, I have gone into the center for an athletic physical and have been asked how I felt. When I said "fine" they said "great", and signed the form. Friends have gone in for a variety of ailments only to get the standard "two aspirins and lots of liquid" answer that is typical of an average encounter...
...hostile Bengali population. At the same time, India withdrew 30,000 of its own troops, about half of its forces in Bangladesh; the rest are expected to stay on perhaps another three or four months to keep order and help with reconstruction. Indian and Bangladesh officials laid the groundwork for an even more massive migration-the return home of the 10 million Bengali refugees who had fled to India to escape roughshod repression by the Pakistani army...
...probably one of the most difficult jobs in modern diplomatic history. "It makes the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks look like a kindergarten scene," says a top official of the U.S. State Department. The job is to lay the groundwork for a proposed conference between the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the Warsaw Pact nations to bring about the reduction of armed forces in Europe. Earlier this year, Soviet Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev surprised the West by suddenly endorsing its longstanding proposal for such troop cutbacks. NATO, suggested Brezhnev, should try tasting "the wine" of Moscow's intentions. Last week...
...with one of his favorite theories: "In capitalist countries, the direction of science is in the hands of those who hate peace." Nonetheless, they recognized the greatness of Bernal's own contributions to science, including experiments with crystals in the 1920s and '30s that helped lay the groundwork for molecular biology. When Sir John Anderson, Home Secretary at the outbreak of World War II, was criticized for hiring an outspoken Communist to work as an explosives expert, he replied that he would employ Bernal "even if he is as red as the flames of hell...