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Coming to the big city is a kind of initiation rite into the fraternity of adulthood. In a young man's imagination, the metropolis is an enticingly profane glade of Babylonian delights. In reality, the tyro may face a jungle ordeal in which he is savaged by the mightiest beast, the city itself...
...owned business ventures. They have also provoked « enough protest, both, from soldiers and | from competing private entrepreneurs, -that the South Viet Nam government last month began a high-level investigation. Last week, under pressure from the U.S. embassy, the government dismissed five Defense Ministry officials and ordered the tyro tycoons to turn over their operations to the government-owned Viet Nam Commercial Bank, claiming that it is illegal for the army to run private businesses. Now the bank is supposed to return to the soldiers all the funds that had been collected from them...
...older warriors of not having an historical sense. Perhaps, in affairs of state, too much history is a bad thing for we live in a rapidly changing world, and all that. But in affairs of Harvard, there is much to be learned by looking back, by turning your confused tyro-minds to the tested words of a century of CRIMSON editorial writers. Here, carefully selected from the past 96 Septembers, is what they have told incoming freshmen...
...There can be no innocent bystanders at a time of civil disturbance or the repression thereof. The involvement of press and television personnel is even more stupid than that of the public. The veriest Fourth Estate tyro should know that a police officer faced with an unruly mob is too busy to check his press card. The sanctimoniousness of McCarthy and Ribicoff, particularly, was too obvious. The police force in Chicago was the only thing that made it possible for McCarthy's heart to bleed in comparative privacy and for Ribicoff to speak of "police brutality" and "Gestapo tactics...
Whether gulping fresh air as a tyro mountain climber or rapids shooter, staring down hostile students in South America or frenzied crowds at home, he had only a shrug for death. He made a point of declining police protection when it was offered?as it was last week in Los Angeles?and his unofficial bodyguard went unarmed. To the crowds whose raucous adulation drew him endlessly to the brink of physical peril, he seemed to offer a choice: Raise me up with your voices and votes, or trample me with your strength...