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...British government last week invoked additional emergency measures to deal with what Prime Minister Edward Heath called the "gravest crisis since World War II." Burdened by fuel shortages, widespread labor strife and an unprecedented trade deficit expected to reach $3.5 billion this year, Chancellor of the Exchequer Anthony Barber announced a $3 billion slash in government spending. It was the largest budget slash in British history and signaled the end of Heath's go-go plan for economic prosperity...
BAKER LIBRARY, The Bank Dick and The Barber Shop, both with W.C. Fields...
CURRIER HOUSE SCR. Cynthia Healy Ellis, soprano; Susan Gordon, piano; Marion Haffenreffer, violin. Chamber music of Bach, Beethoven, Molst, Walton, and Barber. Free. Saturday, November...
Whether the American Secretary of the Rhodes Trust, Mr. William J. Barber, is "timid" or not has nothing to do with the matter. As much as I would like to see the restriction removed, I have to take into account, as a Trustee of the Rhodes Trust, that Mr. Rhodes' will stipulated that his money should be used for scholarships only for "male" students, and an Act of Parliament in 1946 imposed the same restriction on the Rhodes Scholarships. If Mr. Barber tried to break this law, the Rhodes Trustees would have to get another American Secretary...
...encourage the British Trustees to alter the scholarship's terms. But only if enough women apply for the Rhodes, and are endorsed by their colleges, can the Office pursue their case. Other universities should follow Harvard's example and endorse women on the same basis as men. And Mr. Barber should refrain from efforts to squash the women's applications before they reach the state committees. Only when its sexual bias has been removed will the Rhodes scholarship be able to embody the ideals on which it was founded...