Word: access
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Rush, a lawyer-businessman-diplomat, was U.S. Ambassador to West Germany from 1969 to 1972. He did an excellent job as the U.S. negotiator for the four-power Berlin agreement that guaranteed free access to the city. Rush is close to French Foreign Minister Jean Sauvagnargues, who as ambassador to Bonn was France's representative at the Berlin talks. A longtime Nixon friend, Rush went to the White House last May as an adviser on economic policy. He will replace John N. Irwin II in Paris...
...wife's. Therefore, a reduction in men now is supposed to mean a severe drop in contributions 20 years from now. Money, then, is one of thickest and hardest layers to be eaten through if Harvard and Radcliffe are ever to become a single University dedicated to equal access and treatment in the education of all its students...
...athletics at Harvard during the last year turned into yet another kind of war--a war of the sexes for equal access to facilities and funds--as the men's and women's athletics departments fully merged for the first time...
Those who prefer to believe that Harvard's alumni will refuse to support an effort to provide equal access for men and women--even if it requires a reduction in men--are hurting, unwittingly, the university they love so dearly. Conant was fond of showing guests to his office the plaque on his desk. "Behold the Turtle. He Maketh Progress Only When His Head Sticketh Out," the plaque read. Harvard's alumni appear to understand better than many administrators that if Harvard is to continue its progressive path, it must discard the myths that have persuaded it to withhold equal...
Indeed, public access does bring awkward copy and added costs; air time and newspaper space are expensive, and staff must be used to channel the flow of incoming opinions. But the practice will proably expand even further, partly because it is intrinsically just and partly because editors find it the surest way to deflect charges of unfairness. "There was a time when you could bump into an editor in the barber shop and tell him what was on your mind," says Robert Burdock, Plain Dealer managing editor. "But times have changed. Now letters and other kinds of reader expression...