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This attitude, and of course the inability of the Government to get a majority in the Assembly, brought de Gaulle to power in 1958 on many respectable and some very disreputable coattails. "We prefer facism to the independence of Algeria," writes Aron of the position of the "Ultras" and adds in a revealing comment, "but the man to whom they have given absolute power has the soul of a paternal monarch or of a princo-president, not of a tyrant...
Under consideration are proposals for enlarging present facilities in the Radcliffe Yard, and for building a new library near the Quadrangle. Radcliffe commuters favor the first proposal, but many dormitory residents would prefer a library closer to them than the present one. SGA representatives were divided almost equally between the two suggestions...
European opera houses, hoping to re-enact the Continental success stories of George London, Leontyne Price, Gloria Davy, et al. Although a great many of the new U.S. expatriates would prefer to sing at home, there is no room for them in the three major repertory opera theaters (the Metropolitan. Chicago and San Francisco operas). West Germany, Austria and German-speaking Switzerland, on the other hand, have about 60 thoroughly professional opera companies, most of them small houses that the musical tourist rarely hears of: Flensburg, Krefeld, Oldenburg. Hof, Saarbrucken, Augsburg. Kassel, Koblenz, Oberhausen, Bielefeld. There are some...
...trend holds no terrors for the Navy and Air Force, which have relatively small officer requirements and prefer to fill them through voluntary programs. But it has ominous overtones for the Army, which counts on ROTC for 13,200 second lieutenants next year-about 90% of its new officers. If the switch from compulsory to volunteer ROTC becomes general, the Army will be lucky in the future to get 50% of the ROTC officers it needs. At Wisconsin's Madison campus, the shift to a voluntary program has cut freshman enrollment in Army ROTC by 66%. Best Army hope...
...sampling of the Yale faculty, however, taken by the "Elis for Nixon," reveals that faculty members prefer Kennedy over Nixon by a 5 to 2 ratio...