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...Mail last week, plans were presumably still afoot to print the Browns' EXCLUSIVE story once the baby was born, though editors there were uncommonly uncommunicative. The Enquirer this week will print its version of the story, though Murdoch's Sun somehow got hold of a few Enquirer morsels last week in London. Murdoch's Star, a Manhattan-based competitor of the Enquirer, will be out this week with some color snapshots, obtained from friends and neighbors of the Browns, and a 3,500-word article...
...HOLLYWOOD is going to have any influence on the women's movement, it would seem we are in a heap of trouble. There seems to be a new variety of male chauvinism afoot, in fact. Only this time around the male directors of films such as Coming Home, An Unmarried Woman and Dear Inspector, for the European version of feminism, are using more subtle tactics than having John Wayne sweeping some broad off her feet. They are choosing instead to try and let women do themselves in, while their male counterparts sit back, calm, cool and liberated...
...STEVENS, the nation's most flagrant violator of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), has calculated that it is more profitable to break the law systematically and pay its relatively small fines than to give the workers the right to unionize. There is now a movement afoot to pressure Stevens to change its attitude through boycotts of the company's products. Today, college students throughout New England will be participating in demonstrations of support for J.P. Stevens workers. At Harvard, the Friends of the United Farm Workers, a group with a history of boycott experience, is spearheading this anti-Stevens...
...COMMITTEE ON Undergraduate Education (CUE) met last week, and once again, reporters were not allowed to attend. To find out what mysterious doings were afoot behind the closed doors, a Crimson reporter telephoned Glen W. Bowersock '57, chairman of CUE, after the meeting had adjourned. Unfortunately, Bowersock revealed little about what happened at the meeting. Not only had the meeting itself been off the record, but the material discussed was strictly confidential, Bowersock explained apologetically. Bowersock said that the student members of the CUE had an "animate debate" over the new core curriculum report, but he said nothing more...
...sentence has been the sweetheart of prison reformers. Yet this month Illinois becomes the fourth state in two years-after Maine, California and Indiana-to install a system of judicially fixed, predetermined sentences in place of the traditional, often capricious program of discretionary release by parole authorities. Moves are afoot in 15 other states to do the same. As the respected Corrections Magazine puts it, "Determinate sentencing is clearly an idea whose time has come...