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Among the programs scheduled for transmission from the Loeb are three experimental plays, one mainstage production, several chamber music concerts, and the Afro-American Dance Theater. Tom Weber '72, one of the directors at the Loeb, said his group might also use the receiving station in Harvard Hall 104 to accommodate overflow crowds at Loeb productions...
...Senate, Minnesota's Walter Mondale said softly: "Coming into this chamber this morning to talk about the war in Indochina, I felt a deeply depressing sense of reliving all over again tragedies of the past which should be far behind us. We have been through so many springtimes of slaughter and folly and deception . . . Now in the spring of 1972, it is happening again...
...town's rosy dreams: "We figured the economic impact of a college would be as big as any industry." With other local businessmen, Kosman raised $5,463,000 and hired a president who flew around the country to recruit students. When the college opened in 1965, one Chamber of Commerce official crowed, "We are not just a sugar-beet and cattle-raising town any more." But Kosman admits, "We were short of cash from the word...
...local organizations seem to want the only slightly used campus. The trustees now are trying to sell it to the National Rifle Association or the U.S. Chamber of Commerce as a conference center. Bondholders might settle for 150 on the dollar, a common practice in the case of bankrupt businesses. "Gosh, it's a tremendous bargain for somebody," says Banker Kosman. Adds Dr. C.N. Sorenson, another trustee who sank $ 130,000 of his own money into the college: "How so many people who are supposed to know so much could be so wrong, I don't know...
Sometimes ITT's operatives are too smooth for their own good. Recently Yale Brozen, a University of Chicago economist, assailed the Federal Trade Commission in a speech, likening the agency's crackdown on deceptive or puff advertising claims to "star-chamber proceedings" and "Salem witch hunts." The speech got wide publicity. One fact not mentioned in the stories was that Brozen is a paid consultant to Harshe-Rotman & Druck, a public relations firm, which arranged for him to speak in various luncheon clubs. The firm is employed by ITT Continental Baking Co., which has been warned...