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...YEARS AGO Ernest May faced a small revolt in his American diplomacy course. A radical critique by four students charged that History 164b aided the Vietnam war and strengthened support for American foreign policy. The students accused May of reinforcing anti-Communist cold war mystique and substituting "semi-official clap-trap" -the memoirs of Sherman Adams for example-for analysis of U. S. economic motives...
There is said to be a clique of Kennedy men in Cambridge, a semi-official policy group waiting out of power at the Institute. "A very small crowd of JFK operator types getting ready to move back into government," one student describes them. Whatever the proper description. May is in the group. He joined Kennedy's Academic Advisory Council in 1963 and until this summer headed a faculty seminar in the Institute of Politics on the art and practice of bureaucracy. Since the summer he has resigned as director of the student seminar program, but he remains an untitled officer...
...Semi-official sources said that the welding was to be used in building a space platform from which launchings could be made into outer space...
William B. Shockley. Nobel Prize winner in physics from Stanford University, was prevented from speaking at Dartmouth College when 25 students applauded so loudly he could not be heard. Although Shockley specializes in semi-conductors and invented the junction transistor, his paper dealt with the hereditary factors in intelligence, and was called "Offset Analysis of Racial Differences...
Harvard's varsity sailing team won another regatta Monday on the Charles River when it edged M.I.T., 34-41, in the Greater Boston Championships for the Rudolf Oberg Trophy. It was the 58th sailing of the semi-annual event, which M.I.T. won last spring...