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Late this year he becomes a Democrat. The reaction is somewhat schizophrenic. Ted Kennedy issues a halfhearted welcoming statement, intending to support Lindsay for President in 1972, watch him lose to Nixon and then step forward himself in 1976. The Democratic National Chairman is delighted to have such a lustrous fund raiser join the ranks. Others are less pleased with the interloper, and they are not all Southern Democrats. Maine's Edmund Muskie rather archly welcomes Lindsay aboard, after passing the word to a press secretary to triple his own speaking engagements. Hubert Humphrey greets the news with...
...another step toward closer East-West trade links, Yugoslavia and the six-nation European Economic Community last week initialed a three-year trade agreement in Brussels. The treaty, the first between the Common Market and an Eastern European country, is expected to increase Yugoslav exports of beef and other products to the Six. More important, the treaty highlights a growing trend of Communist nations to work with the Common Market rather than oppose...
Sociologists Simon and Gagnon suggest that as a first step toward solving the problem, adult society must admit its own responsibility: "Both the actual miracle and the myth of modern medicine have made the use of drugs highly legitimate, as something to be taken casually and not only during moments of acute and certified distress. Our children, in being casual about drugs, far from being in revolt against an older generation, may in fact be acknowledging how influential a model that generation...
PRINCETON, N.J., Feb. 7-Harvard's hockey team took the first step on the road back to Eastern contention Saturday afternoon, disposing of outmanned Princeton 6-3 in the Tigers' cavernous Gothic garage. The second step comes tonight, when the Crimson confronts even weaker Northeastern in the consolation round of the Beanpot Tournament at the Boston Garden...
Apparently in return for these special considerations, Chokel is not given much leeway to step out of line. According to Chokel, "Almost anything critical said about the administration or faculty gets a quick reaction, really quick...