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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...cannot buy your tentative explanations of the opinion expressed ("incidents such as this are bound to happen in a war") by 65% of those interviewed in the Harris poll re My Lai [Jan. 12]. If this is a patriotic reflex, as you suggest, then it is the unthinking sort of patriotism displayed by many Germans under Hitler in World War II. Nor can it be explained away by a certain "battle wisdom" of the American people. I venture that no more than 1 out of 10 Americans is a combat veteran. This group is, more likely, that Great Silent Majority...
After Harvard's hockey team destroyed Penn, 12-0, in the squad's first meeting last year, the Quakers knew they'd have to come up with some sort of minor miracle to prevent the same thing from happening when they hosted the Crimson later at Cherry Hill, New Jersey...
...further balkanization of Black Africa, where many of the countries such as Gabon (pop. 480,000) and Swaziland (pop. 395,000) are already far too small to function as working national economies. Furthermore, attempts at revising Black Africa's map would undoubtedly plunge the continent into the same sort of bloody border wars that plagued South America in the 19th century. In its founding meeting in 1963, the 41-nation Organization of African Unity adopted in principle the concept that the borders should remain as they are. As Tanzania's President Julius Nyerere said, "Our boundaries...
...really like. How does it feel? What are the ways of getting high? How is grass obtained? This unpretentious little book, which has circulated in the pot subculture for the past four months and will soon be published as a regular paperback, comes up with just that sort of stone lowdown. It has something to say to those who have, to those who haven't but want to, and even to those who don't want to but would like to stay informed...
...portrait of T. S. Eliot '10 by Wyndham Lewis, were not seriously harmed, said Elizabeth Jones, chief conservator of the Fogg Art Museum. She said, however, that a portrait of Theodore Spencer, owned by Eliot House, "appeared badly blanched and will require extensive investigation to determine what sort of treatment is required...