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What did it all prove? Primarily that South Viet Nam's ruling politicians have imbibed only sparingly of the spirit of democracy, while adopting every trick in the freewheeling history of American ward politics and adding some new wrinkles of their own. On election day, TIME Correspondent Rudolph Rauch made a tour of the Mekong Delta province of Vinh Binh, where the government seemed particularly intent on making certain that popular Opposition Deputy Ngo Cong Duc lost (TIME, Sept. 6). Rauch's report...
Holy skulduggery! Or possibly, holy infringement! Gleeps! at the very least. Batman and Robin think that they have been wronged by Big Business, and their response has been uncharacteristically undramatic. Resorting to the courts rather than their fists, Actors Adam West (Batman) and Burt Ward (Robin) contend that the American Broadcasting Co. and 20th Century-Fox among others never paid them their share of the profits from the sales of $300 million worth of Batman sweaters, T shirts, toys and other bits of fledermausian frippery that were inspired by their TV series. Their asking price: $2,000,000 in compensation...
...make other people uncomfortable by accomplishing more than they do, and he enjoys feeling independent: "As long as he has his work, he does not need anybody -he has power, place and things." Lastly, the workaholic may use work as the philanderer uses sex; more and more of both ward off "the anxiety of death...
...Solzhenitsyn's major novels are concerned with the behavior of men in extremis, be it in prison, in a cancer ward or, as in this case, at the battle front. The author describes the new work, the first volume of a projected trilogy, as "the main task of my life," and notes with regret in an afterword: "Now that I am on my way to the goal, I am afraid it is too late. I may not have time and creative imagination left for this 20-year work." Solzhenitsyn focuses on eleven days during the Czarist army's disastrous East...
...former Radcliffe student, I was truly shocked by the article printed in last Thursday's CRIMSON recounting the story of Ward Warren and Termpapers Unlimited. Ten years ago when I was in college. I think I remember having heard of term paper services, but I had no idea they were so ubiquit?us and were granted such casual acceptance by the university community. The idea of such a service is offensive to me beyond words. As a former teacher, and now as an ed?ter, the very existence of such a service to me seems disgusting and immoral. Ward Warren...