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TWENTY years ago this week, the rising tide of activism at Harvard erupted into the most dramatic confrontation in Harvard's history, dividing the student body and faculty, and pitting both against the administration. On April 9, 1969, hundreds of students occupied University Hall, demanding the expulsion of the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC), the introduction of Afro-American studies courses and an end to the University's encroachment on Cambridge neighborhoods...
Behind Captain Terry Murray's fourth-place, 76-stroke outing, Harvard's five-man contingent fired a team total 392-20 strokes better than its showing a week ago at Princeton...
...freedom to plan, manufacture and sell the rest of the plant's output as they see fit (total annual production value: 162 million rubles, or $260 million at the official Soviet conversion rate). Elektrosila has boosted its foreign sales from less than 15% of its production a few years ago to about one-fourth of its current output. "We are now the masters of our own castle," says Valentina Murinas, 50, the factory's chief economist. Elektrosila's new spirit of enterprise extends to its rank-and-file workers, who now receive pay raises based on the plant's profitability...
...room in our Moscow offices anymore. Since January we have been receiving 500, 600, even 700 letters a day. Our secretaries dump mail sacks right on the floor of the reception area, and our conference rooms are filled with folders of mail. Old-timers remember how only four years ago Ogonyok used to receive no more than 20 letters a day, mostly naive poetry or the memoirs of retired people...
When perestroika began, I asked myself if perhaps I hadn't been mistaken about the pyramid. But not long ago, I had the sad occasion to spend some time in Moscow. On the evening of Dec. 30, my friend Yuli Daniel died. If it had not been for his death, they would not have let me into Moscow. Moscow had been denying my wife Maria a visa for a year and a half. The Soviet consulate in Paris had informed us by telephone on the morning of Dec. 30 of the latest denial. Then, after two days of negotiations, they...