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...year many student groups, including the Black Students Association, are calling for Harvard's divestiture of stock in U.S. firms that help uphold the white minority government in South Africa. In 1972, persuasion failed so students took over a building--that also failed to make Harvard divest. Today rumors abound of a possible sit-in if the also assistant to the Corporation's investment all U.S. firms from South Africa, although none of the groups in the United Front, a newly-formed coalition of seven campus anti-apartheid groups, of the Front itself, have announced plans...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: Tinker to Evers to Chance: Harvard Makes Investment Decisions | 4/24/1978 | See Source »

...exhibitors belong to the BVAU, and most of them are or were faculty at the Boston University School of Art. Still, disparate approaches to the human figure abound, as another common factor, professional background, fails to tie things together...

Author: By Susan H. Goldstein, | Title: Bodies in Bronze and Twilight | 4/6/1978 | See Source »

...perfect party for him is "a side of beef and a case of Jack Daniels," is totally insensitive in bed, gung-ho about the war, and outraged when his wife decides to go to work (as a volunteer in the V.A. hospital) after he is shipped overseas. Sultry characters abound, from the wives at the Marine base who are more interested in Little League results than the problems facing the vets in the hospital to the shady FBI men who videotape and record all the gory details of Voight's and Fonda's affair...

Author: By Bob Grady, | Title: 'Nam Goes to the Movies | 4/6/1978 | See Source »

...incoherent, organized while Finch was chaotic, and cerebral while Finch relied on good ol' home-grown common sense. Carmichael--a rich Volkswagen dealer--was the sweetheart of the more intelligent and wealthier 'Mississippians. In the election he carried Jackson, some coastal districts and the Mississippi Delta where plantations still abound and wealth and income disparities are astoundingly great. But the "working men" of Mississippi united. The establishment was overthrown. The "people" had their...

Author: By J.wyatt Emmerich, | Title: Color-Blind Populism | 2/9/1978 | See Source »

...rumors abound. "I've heard he works for the Bureau of Study Counsel," several students said when asked what they thought Mr. Test did when he was not proctoring. Bill Edwards denies it, as does the Bureau of Study Counsel. Another theory is that he works for the registrar's office. Yet, apart from exam time, when the office hires Edwards as a proctor, Mr. Test is not connected with the registrar's office at all. Douglas S. Gardner '57, associate registrar simply says, "He's a proctor." Beyond that, he confesses, "I don't know a heck...

Author: By Enigmatic MR. Test, | Title: The Celebrity Nobody Knows | 2/6/1978 | See Source »

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