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...proposal, which the 19-member Faculty Council approved by a one-sided tally of 11-2-3 (with three members absent), will be passed along to the faculty for a vote in the fall. If the propsal is accepted, the concentration will be implemented...
They also demanded that employers pay workers for the time off, just as they would on an official holiday. At first, many employers refused and threatened to penalize absent workers. The conservative Chamber of Mines even appealed to the courts to ban the work stoppage. But when judges ruled that the unions had the legal right to call the strike, some employers agreed to pay their workers for the day. Even at the Chamber of Mines, officials allowed striking employees to count the day as a personal...
...comedy series with no cackling studio audience, no laugh track--indeed, almost no laughs? Forget it. A police show in which cars never careen through the streets, drug pushers are strangely absent, and nobody draws a gun? No way. A network midseason replacement that tiptoes into the little-watched time period opposite Dallas for an unheralded six-show run? So long, Charlie...
...excised from this bland account. Historians generally tend to focus on the significance of periods of upheaval, but these essays emphasize the placid progress of an educational institution over a shifting population of faceless students and teachers. Student riots are glossed over or ignored. Wartime turbulence is omitted. Conspicuously absent is any mention of the most recent Harvard crisis of student demonstrations in the '60s. Clearly, such a short book cannot include all significant events in the University's formation. Yet the lack of any detailed examination of some tumultuous events makes Harvard history seem excessively dull and rosy...
...properly luminous finale for a man whose energy could light a city block. Born on New York City's Lower East Side, Cagney was the son of a hard- drinking bartender who was frequently absent from home. He was raised mostly by a strong mother who could cheer him on in a barefisted street brawl but stood resolutely in his way when he toyed with the idea of a professional fight career. She made no objections, however, when Cagney fast-talked his way into a $35-a-week vaudeville dancing job when...