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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...directions across Cambridge, community organizers complain. Two of the demands during the student strike of 1969 were for lower rents in University-owned housing and an end to Harvard's incursions on surrounding neighborhoods. Neither has been put into effect, tenant organizer Sullivan says. "Instead, Harvard has recently begun serious real estate investment in the city, and created its own real estate corporation," Sullivan adds. In the last year, the University has tried to take at least one building out of the housing market, ordering tenants evicted so it could be converted to office space. They have also angered some...
Within the framework of its financial aid operations, Harvard operates the Parent Loan Plan (PLP), begun with the Class of '80 which helps students with family incomes ranging from $15,000 to $50,000. The plan uses a variety of loans, grants and student work opportunities to allow parents to pay off their debts to Harvard in eight years of monthly installments. Administrators say the plan has increased the yield--the number of accepted students who actually attend--of middle-income students. Before the PLP the yield among students in this range was about ten percentage points lower than other...
Some of the Levesque faithful have begun to complain about his lassitude and inaccessibility. He has put off a much needed Cabinet shuffle, given only one press conference in two months, and after an early flurry of legislative innovation, his government seems to be marking time. Two weeks ago Levesque was further embarrassed when House Leader Robert Burns resigned for reasons of health. Before leaving, Burns criticized some of his Cabinet colleagues for being interested only in power and predicted that the government would lose the referendum. "I don't want to be there when it happens," he grumbled...
...feature writer for the New York News, who began a humor column for the paper in 1973. Since then he has proposed establishment of a home for wed mothers and called for an Anti-Turkey Roll League to slow the advance of that luncheon meat. Like Baker, Nachman has begun to avoid politics. "It doesn't touch people's lives like dealing with the phone company does," he explains. "In the real world, people go for weeks without thinking of Jimmy Carter. As a humor columnist, I wish there were a new President every six months...
...early '70s, Americans have been flirting reluctantly with a complicated and grudging awareness about themselves and their orgies of fossil burning. But they are still in the quibbling stage, in what psychologists call a period of "defensive avoidance." The gas lines that started in California and have begun to spread across the country like a rumor are still open to confusing interpretations: Are they a temporary inconvenience or ominous intimations of the future? The last gas crisis, in 1973-74, subsided soon enough. Perhaps this one will as well? According to the Gallup poll, more than three-quarters...