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...decision to cancel the examination, which was in progress, came after Theodore Levitt, professor of Business Administration and head of market studies, met with the ten-member Student Education Committee. The SEC representatives told Levitt that an estimated 10 per cent of the 800-member first-year class had advance knowledge of the examination's content...
Levitt said that the decision to cancel was made on the "basis of discussions with the student representatives. The faculty was just not well-informed," Levitt said. "Our decision was based on the information which the students transmitted to us of the extent of the knowledge of the test...
Trudeau said the Post decided to cancel the Mitchell strip about two weeks before it was scheduled to run. The Globe's decision, he said, came after it learned of the Post's plans. "Since the Post is sort of the flagship of the Watergate press, the Globe thought it would be OK not to run the strip if the Post wasn't going to," Trudeau said...
University police Sgt. Lawrence J. Murphy, who is investigating the case, said last night that most of the sales occurred in Lionel, Matthews, Mower, Stoughton, and Thayer Halls. Students who engaged in transactions were encouraged to cancel their checks...
...from McGovern's headquarters invited AFL-CIO President George Meany to meet with McGovern at a time when neither wanted such a confrontation; the misunderstanding further alienated Meany from the McGovern campaign. Someone posing as McGovern's top television-time buyer called CBS to say that he wanted to cancel a major speech; the network rechecked, found that the real buyer had not called. Before the Florida primary, a flyer printed on Muskie stationery wildly asserted that two of Muskie's opponents, Humphrey and Washington Senator Henry Jackson, had participated in "illicit sexual activities." In the New Hampshire primary, telephone...