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...local and one of the more unusual figures on the waterfront. A graduate of Brooklyn College, he was named by the Justice Department in 1969 as an alleged captain in the Gambino crime family. Nonetheless, he has remained respectable enough to lecture on labor at Harvard and attend a White House conference in the Johnson...
...internal rhythms and intricate habits of doing business. Most of its work, for example, is accomplished in committee, not on the House floor. A visitor to the gallery is usually startled to find two-thirds of the seats empty; a transcendent tedium often reigns. As half a dozen members attend to the debate at hand, others read, amble, joke or even doze. It is not beyond the frontiers of possibility that a member might show up drunk, or threaten to punch another member. Into such an atmosphere, TV cameras would arrive like censorious missionaries landing on a pagan island...
...result of expanded, although still primitive medical care, life expectancy for the 16 million Tanzanians has risen from about 40 years in 1961 to 47 today. Education is free through university (though most children attend school only through the primary grades), and universal literacy by 1980 is a goal of the party...
Participants will view several films and discuss works by authors including Maya Angelou, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., and W.E.B. DuBois. The group will also attend speaches and symposiums in the Boston area...
COPSO invited minority and third world groups, Friends of the United Farm Workers, the Philips Brooks House (PBH), the Harvard Anti-Nuclear Alliance and SASC to attend an organizational meeting last night, but only SASC, PBH, and DSOC representatives were present...