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There will be cloudless skies, a high of about 70 degrees and only a 10 per cent chance of rain today, according to the National Weather Service...
...home loans went to buy up the old mill houses rather than add many suburbs to what had been a company town. There was hardly any urban renewal because there wasn't much to renew. The people who could have used the money--the 40 per cent of the town's population who were black and restricted mostly to the worst housing--didn't have the political power to make a money grab. Whites kept them out of power with country-club nominations and at-large elections. But whites and blacks maintained strong neighborhoods, decent schools (at least after...
Tsongas proposed a national program of "phased conditional divestiture" on the Senate floor last month. Under his plan, universities would sell 20 per cent of their holdings in companies with operations in South Africa each year for five years, achieving complete divestiture...
...home loans went to buy up the old mill houses rather than add many suburbs to what had been a company town. There was hardly any urban renewal because there wasn't much to renew. The people who could have used the money--the 40 per cent of the town's population who were black and restricted mostly to the worst housing--didn't have the political power to make a money grab. Whites kept them out of power with country-club nominations and at-large elections. But whites and blacks maintained strong neighborhoods, decent schools (at least after...
...time for the Faculty to demand some minimum standard of involvement, and they settled on legislation which required Faculty members to teach at least 30 per cent of a department's tutorials. However, a 1976-77 CUE study of tutorial programs in five of Harvard's largest departments--History, English, Economics, Government, and Psychology and Social Relations--revealed that none of these departments ever complied with the requirement. The worst offender--the History Department--had graduate students teaching 91 per cent of its tutorials. No Faculty members taught sophomore tutorials in English, History and Psychology and Social Relations, although...