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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that over 50 per cent of Harvard-Radcliffe College alumni are pursuing careers which have no direct connection with their undergraduate field of study. Concentrations at Harvard are not designed to prepare you for a career." Leape said she thinks the main purpose of a concentration is "exploring a central area of knowledge." She added that a study of the relationship between the concentrations of the Class of '71 and the careers they went on to pursue showed very little correlation between concentrations and career decisions...

Author: By Alfred E. Jean, | Title: Did You Ever Have To Make Up Your Mind? | 4/19/1978 | See Source »

...Africa. Outside Africa it is regarded as representing the "total voice" of the churches on the continent. Its unequivocal support for the armed struggle being waged by the liberation movements in southern Africa, its vocal protests and denunciations of violations of human rights in Burundi, Equitorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Uganda, Central African Empire and several other independent African nations, and its successful attempts to promote reconciliation and justice in Zaire, Nigeria and the Sudan have all served to enhance the stature and credibility of the African churches before the world...

Author: By Canon BURGESS Carr, | Title: African Churches in Conflict | 4/18/1978 | See Source »

...29th of April, I'm planning to run a 10,000-meter race in Central Park. I have a ten-dollar bet with my doctor on whether or not I'll finish," Wicklund says. The septuagenarian also plans to run in October's New York City Marathon and finish in under four hours...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: A Grand, Old Runner | 4/18/1978 | See Source »

...parties responsible that the American people demand justice for the working people of our country. We of Harvard-Radcliffe Friends of the United Farmworkers organize consumer delegations to Cambridge area stores to request that they remove Stevens products from their shelves. We have distributed leaflets in Harvard and Central Squares to raise consciousness about the issue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From Farming To the Boycott | 4/18/1978 | See Source »

...Times that Jimmy Carter had decided against production of the neutron bomb. For months U.S. diplomats had been trying to win NATO nations' support for the bomb on the ground that its lethal radiation would offset the Soviet Union's 3-to-l superiority in tanks in Central Europe. Now Carter seemed to have changed his mind despite the recommendations of his chief advisers on defense and diplomacy. All week long U.S. officials kept denying the Times report, insisting that it was all a misunderstanding, that no firm decision had been made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Neutron Bomb Furor | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

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