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Women Employed at Harvard (WEH), at its organizational meeting last night, called on Harvard to admit more women as undergraduates and to establish an office for channeling complaints registered by female employees...
Gamal Abdel Nasser is still a hero in Cairo, but more and more Egyptians seem willing to admit his mistakes. They feel that their country has outgrown the fanaticism of Nasser's day, and they look to the more matter-of-fact Sadat for reasonable approaches. One sign of the new realism, they feel, is that even as U.S.-made tanks were positioned against them not far from the city's outskirts, representatives of an American firm were discussing details of a projected $345 million pipeline from the Gulf of Suez to the Mediterranean. Cairenes appear...
Many universities despair of finding a qualified Arab who would be willing to settle into what they admit is a hostile environment. Says the director of Harvard's center, Turkish Anthropologist Nur Yalman: "Arabs who are educated enough to compete in the environment of the Western university are already the cream of the cream." He adds that such men have a "serious consciousness of a deep cultural gap between the Christian and the Moslem worlds...
Theophilus, however, has a sense of humor. He is the first to admit that his only weapons are charm, some mild Freudian therapy, a gift for mendacity and the kind of benign chicanery that in old-fashioned stories used to help gentle, truthful and kindly people at the expense of the rapacious, the pretentious and the proud. Indeed, most of the crises North confronts are genteel and domestic: incipient misalliances (to be blocked), henpecked husbands (to be liberated) and the ill effects of ghastly rumors (to be laid to rest...
Republican leaders, including Scott, have sent several messages--described by some sources as ultimatums--to the president in recent weeks. So even if they won't admit it publicly, it is apparent that the GOP wants the Watergate ordeal cleared up at any cost--well before campaigns for 1974 start--even if members are forced to pressure the resignation of their standard-bearer...