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...tacitly consented to this change in emphasis; Harvard administrators have given even blunter approval of the strategy. In addition, Harvard Magazine, in compliance with officials' requests, last month published an article extolling the Overseers of yore and insinuating that the new breed of Overseers has brought Harvard to the brink of financial disaster...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: For a Diverse Board of Overseers | 12/16/1977 | See Source »

...slow progress of pre-Geneva negotiations, Sadat was seeking to persuade Israel to drop all preconditions and come to the renewed peace conference that President Carter has been pushing for. If Sadat should succeed in the talks that lie ahead, a negotiated settlement, after 29 years of war and brink of war, is within the realm of hope. If he fails, another war becomes a vivid danger. In the process, Sadat has put on the line his position as leader of the moderate Arabs, and perhaps his life as well. Even before he embarked on his mission, Sadat was being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Sadat's Sacred Mission | 11/28/1977 | See Source »

Some farmers were, and still are, genuinely on the brink of disaster-and genuinely in need of federal relief. But in many cases the availability of the emergency loans has been simply unwarranted. The SBA overgenerously declared a full two-thirds of S all U.S. counties disaster areas and therefore eligible for the loans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: SBA No! | 11/14/1977 | See Source »

...endear her to too many other women ? though they should cause countless male eyes to go into orbit and may well tie up traffic wherever ? or if ? they are worn. The most spectacular clothes Rykiel exhibited feature necklines that do not plunge: they go over the brink, leaving the bosom bare, out there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Put-Ons, Take-Offs and Dress-Ups | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

...endear her to too many other women ?though they should cause countless male eyes to go into orbit and may well tie up traffic wherever?or if ?they are worn. The most spectacular clothes Rykiel exhibited feature necklines that do not plunge: they go over the brink, leaving the bosom bare, out there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Put-Ons, Take-Offs and Dress-Ups | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

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