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...next morning, the Nixons and the Sadats whirled off by helicopter for a brief look at the pyramids ("After we are done," Nixon joked to Sadat, "the press corps can climb to the top"), and Pat toured a nearby children's center, displaying all of the warm grace that she has shown during similar visits across the U.S. and around the world...
...House Judiciary Committee be gan to climb out of its rut and seemed ready to quicken the march toward impeachment. Charles Colson, a former member of Nixon's innermost circle, confessed his criminality and professed a desire to tell all that he knows about Watergate. It was revealed that a federal grand jury had named the President as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Watergate cover-up case - the first official citation of direct criminal association ever brought against a U.S. President. Adding to Nixon's judicial problems, a federal judge openly, threatened to cite him for contempt...
...Hospital, "but there is no black middle class." Yet too much should not be expected too soon. Because of its origins in slavery, no other ethnic group has started so far behind in America with so many historical liabilities. For blacks the way up is all the steeper, the climb the more arduous. What is encouraging is that they seem to be making a successful ascent. Thomas Pettigrew, a social psychologist at Harvard, believes that the middle class is gaining the "know-how to pass on from generation to generation." As it does, an increasing number of blacks will meet...
...cost of living increases. Union President Murray H. Finley has not yet produced a precise formula, but he rejects a management proposal that seems less than serious. It calls for paying a kind of inflation dividend in the third year of a new contract -but only if prices climb by more than a phenomenal 20% over the first two years. Says Finley: "Management has no conception of the depth of workers' feelings in 1974. Skilled workers are finding it hard to support their families...
...this injustice--if one can call it that--aside, the Cinderella climb of Harvard's baseball team from the ash heap of the Eastern League second division to the Omaha College World Series has ended. The 1974 national collegiate baseball champion has yet to be crowned, but for Harvard's Crimson, the midnight chimes have rung.Crimson righthander MIKE O'MALLEY, who had been Harvard's pressure pitcher during the stretch run to the NCAA District I title, came up with another big performance Saturday against Northern Colorado, tossing a six-hitter and striking out ten. Unfortunately, O'Malley's performance...