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...AAAAS today performs within these three broad functions. Hubert Sapp '67, outgoing President of the organization, feels that "because the Association, was, on its fact, contrary to established liberal tenets, the Administration and the Harvard community interpreted us as a step backward. But in the past two or three years. Afro has demonstrated the kind of contributions it can make, and that these functions could not have been performed if we did not exist specifically as an all-black organization." The point of these functions has been to get black students thinking about the problems of the black community...
...lone dissenter,* Justice Stewart, surprisingly made no mention of the possibility that countless minors now in custody may well be entitled to quick release. He did argue, however, that the court was inviting "a long step backward into the 19th century," an era when "there were no juvenile proceedings, and a child was tried in a conventional criminal court." In anticipation of that objection, the majority carefully noted that it was not suggesting that juvenile courts needed to change in every respect. It will still be acceptable for the courts to keep a juvenile's record secret to protect...
When the full extent of Belknap's endowment became known, the Press began using the Belknap imprint for more than Americana. Now a quarter of the books the Press publishes are awarded the imprint in recognition of their superiority. Recent Belknap books include Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward 2000-1887 and John K. Fairbank's China: The People's Middle Kingdom and the U.S.A...
...that all: Denmark, Ireland and Norway among Britain's European Free Trade Association partners are queueing up right behind London to join the EEC. Of the other EFTA Seven, Austria already has in its application for association, Sweden and Switzerland are likely to apply, and only backward Portugal will be condemned to watch the rush toward a uniting Europe from the sidelines...
...frantic balance" that college has imposed on his life. "Harvard," he says, "is the kind of place where you feel guilty every time you play ping-pong." It is hectic, but when things get tight, he is renowned in the dorm for his ability to "wonk" (know spelled backward), or cram, for exams. Last week, preparing for back-to-back concerts in Hackensack, N.J., and Akron, James Oliver Buswell IV sighed sagely: "It will be refreshing to get back and be just another one of the students searching for truth...