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Stumping the hardscrabble ethnic precincts and the fashionable ballrooms of Pennsylvania, the three most active Democratic candidates last week at times seemed peckish and anxious. All have drastically had to chop their spending and personally phone likely contributors for more aid. Congress had put them in the bind by unconscionably taking off for an Easter recess before a law reviving federal campaign subsidies could be passed (TIME, April 12). And all three were worried that they faced varying degrees of loss in the state...
THESE TOKEN ATTEMPTS at interaction with the world outside the scientific enclave serendipitously serve to bind the members of the Observatory together. The colloquia and tennis are among the few common rituals in this intensely pluralistic society. The Observatory buildings mark the intersection of an almost infinite number of lines of research. But there is little communication between them; each fraternity keeps to itself. Research projects are conceived and funded separately, and teams work as closed units. A group will have more contact with people doing similar work in Arizona, or the USSR, than it will with a group doing...
...over there depend on us for jobs, money and food, "says a Highlands polo player, pointing to the sprawling African townships of Highfield and Harare eight miles outside Salisbury. "They know that if they start something, well leave and the country will collapse. They'll be in a bind without us, and the smart ones know better than to cause trouble...
...Pusey '28 could easily tap great fortunes for large' scale development. But "Harvard's ability to call on wealthy alumni is rapidly nearing an end" one University fundraiser says, and Treasurer George Putnam Jr. '49 now concedes that Harvard currently faces "the hard realities of an acute financial bind where there now exists a need for hard choices...
Peterson can readily reel off a list of programs and parts of the University that are most acutely hit by the financial bind...