Word: careers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Both teams played with a cold, relentless fury which produced some of the supreme individual efforts in recent Harvard football history. Quarterback Larry Brown completed 16 of 29 passes for 260 yards to break Jim Kubacki's old record of 2218 career passing yards. Brown threw two touchdown passes on the day and also sashayed for 74 yards on the ground...
...wonders whether to be more surprised at the blatant hypocrisy of Strom Thurmond in going after the black vote in South Carolina [Oct. 16] now that they have some power, or the naivete of the black voters who intend to support a man who, for most of his public career, considered them a political pariah. If the blacks in South Carolina truly seek justice, let them begin by distinguishing, on election day, between true concern and absolute cynicism...
Kahn, 61, was influenced in his choice of a career by the Great Crash. "I went into economics," he says, "because the world was suffering from catastrophic depression." The experience did not make him a partisan of Big Government; it convinced him instead of the strength of free enterprise. After a boyhood in Paterson, N.J., he graduated summa cum laude from New York University and earned his doctorate in economics at Yale. He started teaching at Cornell in 1947, and has remained on the faculty ever since...
...second day of the hearing, Brooke accused Wertheimer of "professional misconduct" in making his charges. Said Brooke to the committee: "My career is in jeopardy, and I just want you to hear the facts and make a judgment." The committee announced that it had "no evidence linking Senator Brooke personally" with altering the documents. The absolution was meaningless, since Wertheimer's accusations were not against Brooke but his representatives...
Perhaps many American women are just not attracted by political careers. Other opportunities are opening in more secure and lucrative jobs. Says New York City Council President Carol Bellamy: "Politics has a terrible reputation. We're striving to come up to the level of the used-car salesman. So if you have some options, who's going to go into politics?" Why, indeed, would a career woman select a field in which she is likely to have to invest a lot of money, disrupt her family and probably end up thwarted...