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...freshman housing assignments. The article was characterized by glaring distortions of fact and by a slanted overall tone unjustiably directed against the Radcliffe Houses. We feel that such articles unfortunately tend to perpetuate false impressions of the Radcliffe Houses -- far more damaging than the effect feared by Dean Austin...
Angelo flew to Austin, Texas, and visited Lady Bird at her office in the Lyndon Baines Johnson Memorial Library and on the L.B.J. Ranch. "It seemed only right that much of our time in Texas was spent on the move," says Angelo. "In her White House years I had traveled almost 100,000 miles covering Lady Bird in splendid pal aces and even more splendid wildernesses. This time the questions I had to ask were deeply personal, but she talked as perceptively as always, with a poetic turn of phrase, unabashed candor and an unquelled sense...
...Ranch. Lady Bird spends much of her time in her comfortable apartment atop the L.B.J. broadcast building overlooking Austin and an endless green vista of plains stretching beyond the city. But home continues to be the L.B.J. Ranch, which still seems filled with Lyndon's presence. There are the three television sets he used to watch the news; the worn lounge chair big enough to accommodate his great frame; the bentwood rockers on the front porch where he and Lady Bird used to watch twilight settle over the river; and a needlepoint pillow inscribed: "This is my ranch...
Harvard first voted its stock for insurgent proxy resolutions last Spring; the Bok Administration's interpretation of what had been Harvard policy, officially at least, since the 1971 Austin Report--not to "remain passive in the face of substantial evidence that the company is acting in an antisocial way"--became clear at that time. Harvard would support disclosure resolutions, especially resolutions asking for information on corporate support for South Africa that met its exacting--some would say ridiculous--standards of what was "reasonable." It would generally oppose resolutions with whose specifics it disagreed--even if it professed support...
Leaders of the group said after the meeting that they will see Dean Whitlock and Genevieve Austin, assistant dean of Students at Radcliffe, today to request that the administration reconvert Claverly Hall into a sophomore dormitory...