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...songs Yarrow performed Sunday are on That's Enough For Me. The album is uneven, one or two of the songs very ordinary, but Yarrow's voice and the arrangements almost always avert real disappointment. The Maytals, a Jamaican reggae group, are used to good effect, and if Yarrow's version of "The Harder They Come" falls short of Jimmy Cliff, how could it do otherwise...
...with the right moving to make Bok's suggestion a reality, and the left mobilizing to avert any such action, those of us who weren't present for the '69 confrontations--which largely focused on the issue of ROTC on campus--ought to familiarize ourselves with the events of the '68-'69 academic year which led to the expulsion of ROTC from the Harvard campus...
...Some people say we need a coup to avert a civil war," Allende defiantly declared last week, "but in Chile there will be neither a coup nor a civil war." The tragic prospect is that while the harassed and embattled President may succeed in averting a military coup, he may soon be powerless to govern or to stave off overt civil...
Even the immediate settlement of the mill strikes (which does not seem likely) will not avert a shortage that may continue for three years. The problem is that while production of newsprint has remained about the same since 1970, demand has risen steadily. U.S. papers gobbled up 10.3 million tons of newsprint last year, an increase from 9.6 million tons in 1970; consumption for the first six months this year ran 5.4% higher than the 1972 rate. Caught flat-footed by this surge, neither U.S. purchasers nor Canadian suppliers see any quick solution. New paper mills are costly ($50 million...
...Since then, he has bolstered his argument considerably while extending his inquiries to other works of preliterate man. He peered through temples along the Nile with his guide Gamel, "the quintessence of experts - an Egyp tian Egyptologist," and roamed the deserts of Peru with Palacio the grave robber. To avert unpleasant dietary sur prises, Hawkins stuck to an "expedition diet: beer, bread and stews boiled and bubbled to sterility." Surprises some times defied even this regime, however. In Cuzco, a tea prescribed for altitude sickness turned out to be brewed from cocaine...