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There are no Los Angeles natives, it is said, only immigrants. For the contributors to this week's cover story, the cliché was nearly true: Bureau Chief Benjamin Gate has been there only two years, while Correspondent Steven Holmes transferred from Chicago last year, Alessandra Stanley arrived six months before that, and Joseph Kane came five years ago. Picture Researcher Martha Haymaker has seniority with 15 years' residence. But an exception marks every rule: Reporter Laura Meyers, who turned up statistics more current than the U.S. Census Bureau's, is a lifelong Angeleno...
...very strange era," Benjamin M Brown, director of the Fellows Program says now "The Fellows Program was considered by uninformed people as a kind of training ground for U.S. imperialism...
...first major assault took place in September 1969, when 20 to 30 members of The Weathermen, a militant offshoot of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), rushed into the offices of the Center, chasing out staff members and physically assaulting those who resisted. They gave Benjamin H. Brown, director of the Fellows Program, a serious gash above the ear, and once inside the building, they painted the slogans 'Pig' and 'Fuck US Imperialism' on the interior walls...
Under the auspices of the EHS, Harding, Alpert. Johnson and other health specialists respond to and attack a variety of health Eazards through out the University. A multi faceted public health organization. EHS is one of Harvard's newer establishments. In 1958, University Health Services hired Dr. Benjamin G. Ferris, current EHS director to organize a few radiation protection officers into a larger group which would oversee health conditions in University buildings. At the time, the main purpose of EHS was to handle radioactive material and to establish safety programs...
There are other, nonconstitutional concerns as well. Though most youngsters seem to enjoy the fingerprinting ritual, Pediatrician Benjamin Spock warned two weeks ago that "children worry about things they don't understand." And they may worry if they do understand the fear that prompts their parents. Is taking a child's fingerprints effective? Mary Jones of Florida's Missing Children Information Clearinghouse, who supports the new programs, acknowledges, "Fingerprinting helps only if we find a child who is either small and can't say his name or an amnesia victim or dead...