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...classic feat: two men against the unforgiving granite face of a mountain. From a beginning without fanfare, through a frustrating, storm-slowed ascent to a triumphant end, the assault on the Wall of the Early Morning Light -the sheerest approach to the summit of Yosemite's El Capitan Peak-was an atavism. For those who watched, it was like all high adventure, an escape from the ambiguities of ordinary life where seldom are there clean, finite beginnings, middles and ends to anything, and unalloyed success is rarer still...
Rebuilding the anti-war movement beyond its peak in 1969 may well take most of the winter, especially after five futile and discouraging years of protest have given us a president whose vision is even less than his predecessor. Lyndon Johnson was, for all his failings, a moral man who could be broken by an appeal to his morality on the war. On more than one occasion, he expressed, bewilderment and apprehension over the sight of thousands in the street protesting his own role as a war monger...
...reduction followed much sharper declines in many other interest rates. The Treasury bill rate, for example, has fallen from last year's peak of more than 8% to 5½%. The discount-rate reduction put the Federal Reserve's stamp of approval on these declines, and showed that the board's seven governors believed that the U.S. economy could stand a further easing of interest rates. New York's Chase Manhattan Bank promptly took the hint and led major banks in trimming the prime rate-the minimum lending charge on loans to business from...
...death of Jocasta is equal to reading Oedipus tell of his mother's death. Filming or dancing these experiences brings the ideas home to the doer: they mean something to him personally since he creates the order. Increment dance and film by one dimension until you reach a peak experience...
...sergeant in a marked Harvard police cruiser and two patrolmen are always stationed at Radcliffe, whose security the Harvard police took over in 1965. Another sergeant drives a marked cruiser in the Harvard area, and is responsible for five patrolmen, except from 6 p.m. to 2 a.m., the peak period, when he is responsible for seven...