Word: accessibility
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cited in Washington these days as "exactly the sort of thing the U.S. should not do in the Middle East today." In the 1950s a ranking U.S. ambassador in the Middle East, Raymond Hare, summed up the U.S.'s minimum interests in the region as "right of transit, access to petroleum, and absence of Soviet military bases." That probably remains the bottom line today. Toward that end, the U.S. may have to step up technical, economic and (very selectively) military aid. Already the U.S. has a potential "archipelago of allies" that aid each other in opposing Moscow-supported internal...
...Alan Heimert, master of Eliot House, tells residents of that House that he has restricted access to their dining hall to only blonde-haired males carrying squash racquets. The chairman of the Eliot House Committee explains that the action has been taken for the protection of the vacationing Reza Pahlevi. Heimert declines to confirm or deny the explanation...
...same sense that Harvard has. This is not surprising. Neither have Smith or Wellesley. Although some maverick women graduating from these institutions have become leaders, they have been far outnumbered by their classmates who became educated homemakers. With the general trend in the '70s shifting to more equal access to power, money and prestige for women, their access to education has widened considerably; hence the move toward equal access at Harvard, and the move to accept women at other previously all-male Ivy League schools...
Linda Rawson '76 joined the club to play squash, and says "it took a lot of fortitude to remain a member." She notes that women were allowed on only four of the eight squash courts and had no access to locker room facilities. However, a major renovation of the facilities in 1978 which improved quarters for women, made, as Rawson says, "a whole different world" for women...
...woman chooses to pose for Playboy or not should be between her photographer and herself. It is none of your business. Women have the right to decide for themselves what their actions and lifestyles should be. Refusing to run Playboy's ad is denying the women of Harvard free access to information about what choices they have available to them...