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...Ford Administration was making its own capitulation?to the insurmountable resistance both in Congress and among the public to continued U.S. involvement in Viet Nam. In the wake of Thieu's resignation, the President told 5,000 cheering Tulane students in New Orleans: "Today America can again regain the sense of pride that existed before Viet Nam, but it cannot be achieved by refighting a war that is finished?as far as America is concerned." Contrary to some of his earlier rhetoric, he urged that "we stop refighting the battles and recriminations of the past...
Others involve themselves in extracurricular activities--sometimes exclusively--deciding that they are more educational than what Harvard's course catalogue has to offer; that the people involved are easier to approach; and that, in some ways, they present an easier way for students to regain the "big fish" status that they enjoyed earlier. Or they take it slightly further, trying for an even bigger-fish status by joining the university's political power structure...
Saigon has often known danger but never as acutely as now. There have been times of great peril-such as the 1968 Tet offensive that brought savage street fighting into the heart of the city-but Saigon managed swiftly to regain its calm, almost nonchalant air. This time the pressure is building slowly but surely, and the old insouciance is fast disappearing...
...Jack Nicklaus keep up his recent winning pace to collect his fifth Masters title? Can Johnny Miller, who missed the cut at the Heritage Classic, regain the winning touch that earned him three titles earlier this season? How will Lee Elder handle the pressure of being the first black to compete for the winner's green jacket? These are among the tantalizing questions that will draw thousands of fans to Augusta, Ga., this week, and millions more to their television sets to view golf's most notable rite of spring-the Masters tournament...
...account suggests, is cyclical and its form is more important than its substance. As a stoic believer in the capacity of the Harvard faculty to steer a steady course in its commitment to intellectual excellence, he suggests that "it is possible to still hope that the academic culture may regain much of the ground it has lost." As if to buck up his discouraged colleagues he closes his essay with the thought that the "price of freedom and innovation is often disturbing; the rewards are very high." Demonstrating these rewards, he writes: "In February-March 1971, the International Gallup Poll...