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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...guys want a complimentary pass?" asks Barbara Kopple. She is fiddling with desk drawers in the Orson Welles. "No, sorry--it has to be signed," She shuts the desk abruptly. Kopple is the Academy award-wining director of Harlan County, USA, chosen last month as best documentary, and her credentials are impressive--sound woman on Hearts and Minds, camera, sound and direction on Winter Soldiers, and camera woman Gimme Shelter--all three classic documentaries of the 1970s. Kopple is a veteran of the anti-war movement, "from the first Pentagon march where they clubbed us," and sincere in her leftism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Talk With Barbara Kopple | 4/21/1977 | See Source »

Joseph Bernal has been chosen as the next head coach of swimming and director of aquatics at Harvard, the athletics office announced yesterday. He succeeds Ray Essick who left Harvard last October to become national swimming director of the Amateur Athletic Union in Annapolis...

Author: By Jaleh Poorooshasb, | Title: Bernal to Coach Swim Team, Has High Hopes for Harvard | 4/20/1977 | See Source »

Other problems complicated the Labor Party's choice of a successor. Only six weeks ago, Rabin won re-endorsement as head of the party by narrowly defeating Defense Minister Shimon Peres by 41 out of nearly 3,000 votes. Party bylaws state that a replacement can be chosen only at another convention. In hectic days of negotiation after the bombshell, party chieftains decided that the 809-member central committee of the party could make the choice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: The Sad Downfall of Yitzhak Rabin | 4/18/1977 | See Source »

Robin L. Leidner '79, who will discuss a paper about the beginning of the birth control movement, said she had chosen to participate in the program partly to help combat the idea that women's issues aren't acceptable subjects to research...

Author: By Anne E. Bartlett, | Title: Women's Committee Will Start Program on Feminist Research | 4/18/1977 | See Source »

James Q. Wilson, Shattuck Professor of Government and the task force chairman, has repeatedly said that eight was a rather arbitrarily chosen number of core areas, and the council apparently agreed, merging several areas into one in the new proposal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In Progress | 4/16/1977 | See Source »

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