Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When, last Monday, I finally left Divinity Ave. in the background and reached the Bio labs, I realized, among other things, that I had never before seen most of the people emerging from the laboratories. At least there's one thing in my Harvard career to be proud of. (Just kidding folks...
...prime candidates for recovering. His personal secretary, Susan Clough, sits in an office adjacent to the study. When she is not typing letters or penciling in the almost constant changes in Carter's daily schedule, she is feeding the President's Panasonic phonograph with classical LPs. The background music plays all day. Clough types the musical program on a tidy series of yellow three-by-five cards and places them on the President's desk so that he can make mental notes of what he is hearing. Some of the music for this Wednesday: Bach...
...more successful clinics, San Francisco's Legal Services for Children, was opened 18 months ago by Carole Brill, 28, an attractive, intense attorney with a background in prisoner rights law. Operating with local foundation financing out of a refurbished downtown factory building, the clinic's three attorneys and three paralegals can devote personal attention to individual problems that overburdened legal-aid attorneys and probation officers do not have time for. Since most of its clients are involved in juvenile court, the legal goal often boils down to finding an alternative to reform school, and persuading the judge...
Mather House will contribute two official entries--sophomore David Sullivan and Joel Arnason, a junior. Sullivan also qualified in the Silver Lake Marathon, running a 2:47.48 in his first effort. Sullivan, who has a track and cross-country background said last week there's some pressure to the race: "All these people keep telling me that they're going to come down and watch me and Jeez, what if I drop out? I tell everybody that it's my problem, not theirs. After it's all over I'm going to get drunk...
Albright said the journal is basically aimed at "the informed public with some background in economics...