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This was a university matter which could and should have been handled within the College and within the great Harvard traditions of free discourse and necessary innovation. By quickly calling in the Cambridge po- lice with their totally predictable savagery you have shown more mindlessness and violence than the original dissenters themselves. The bitter escalation and permanent scars of this colossal blunder are now your responsibility...
Lowenstein echoed the feelings of many of his constituents: "I didn't call the po lice because I was busy, because re porting takes so much time, and be cause it is so hard to get the police interested...
There is practically no oil in Italy, yet the state-run E.N.I, monopoly became a world petroleum power under the late Enrico Mattei and his successor, Eugenio Cefis. Mattei bought crude from the Soviets, developed natural-gas resources in the Po Valley, and proudly declared that in building E.N.I., "I broke 8,000 laws." To sidestep Cyclopean bureaucrats-with their time-consuming rules about building permits and their endless paper work-he laid the pipelines at night, while the officials slept...
...over the Jordan River to truck traffic, reversing its own policy of keeping connections between Jordan and the West Bank open. Now trucks coming from Jordan must unload on one side, and the goods are reloaded into Israeli vehicles on the other side, all under the watchful eyes of po- lice. Police barricades have been set up outside Jerusalem and more green-be-reted civil guards called up to reserve duty. At Israeli schools, teachers are now being lectured on anti-terrorist tactics and given courses in first aid, and schoolchildren are instructed in how to identify mines. Cinema ushers...
Like the movies and TV before it, the copying-machine industry has been eager to move from a purely black-and-white technology into color reproduction. It has long been known that such mammoths as Xerox, RCA and Po laroid were entered in the race. Yet last week, in a preview at Manhattan's Roosevelt Hotel, St. Paul-based 3M Co. (formerly Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing) was the first to break from the gate. When the gold curtains parted on the stage of the hotel ballroom, 3M proudly revealed two prototypes of a copying machine that can faithfully reproduce...