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...summit brings a show of unity, and the Soviets adopt a friendlier tone...
...Harvard Foundation is an agency established by the Administration and Faculty of the University to improve racial understanding. It is a new and very promising idea--a Harvard idea that we hope other institutions throughout the country will adopt. Experience has shown that whenever large numbers of persons of different racial backgrounds live and work together, there will likely be misunderstandings, tensions, and conflicts. Al institutions should establish some agency whose programs and policies seek to improve racial understanding, to encourage persons of different racial backgrounds to interact around mutual interests with the aim of reducing racial hostilities. This...
President Reagan and Congress last week accepted the need for this "time out," appropriating more than half a billion dollars for flight testing of the missile. Now the U.S. will almost certainly adopt the MX--a measure which despite the Scowcroft recommendation it gained is in no way essential to the commission's argument...
Although this option is still under discussion, the administration will probably broaden departmental guidelines in the near future. Dean of the College Harriet Sheridan, who is chairman of the Educational Policy Committee, will most likely recommend strongly that more concentrations next year adopt related outside requirements such as a foreign language component or a computer literacy requirement...
Though Congress in 1975 legislated a gradual and voluntary changeover in weights and measures, nothing seems harder to do than to get Americans to adopt metric, the system used by all the world except Brunei, Burma, North and South Yemen-and the U.S. In 1977, a Gallup poll found Americans opposed to metric by better than 2 to 1. As part of their continuing struggle to bring the U.S. in line with the rest of humanity, leading proponents of metric, or, more formally, the International System of Units (known by its French initials SI), gathered in Arlington, Va., last week...