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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...revelations of the past week may serve to confirm what some graduate students feared to be the case about GSAS admissions: that financial aid was, in fact, the final criterion for their acceptances...

Author: By Sydney P. Freedberg, | Title: GSAS Passes Over The Needy | 9/28/1974 | See Source »

...pardon protesters outside a hotel in Pittsburgh, where he addressed a conference on urban transportation. They waved signs bearing such taunts as THE COUNTRY WON'T STAND FOR IT?a mockery of Ford's declaration about a pardon for Nixon, which Ford made during the Senate hearings to confirm him as Vice President. In an otherwise pleasant outing to help dedicate a World Golf Hall of Fame in Pinehurst, N.C., Ford faced more banners: IS NIXON ABOVE THE LAW? and JAIL CROOKS, NOT RESISTERS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: The Fallout from Ford's Rush to Pardon | 9/23/1974 | See Source »

...Ford about Nixon's emotional problems, which were beginning to manifest themselves in physical ailments. Ford, whether accurately or not, came to believe that Nixon was seriously ill, deeply depressed and might even die unless he was soon relieved of some of his legal worries. Nixon's doctors did confirm a new blood clot last week (see box page 17), but part of Nixon's pain and discomfort is clearly the self-inflicted result of his reluctance to obey his doctor's advice for treating his thrombophlebitis. Ford's interjection of Nixon's health into his speech is the best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: The Fallout from Ford's Rush to Pardon | 9/23/1974 | See Source »

Edward T. Sullivan, chairman of SEIU local 254, would neither confirm nor deny yesterday that the union asked for 10 per cent raises...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann, | Title: 885 Workers Strike, Crippling MIT | 9/20/1974 | See Source »

...each be disseminated to the public before the committee begins to hammer out its final recommendations this fall. Strauch strongly emphasizes that while he and most others on the committee have preferences, they are no where near any group resolutions. Discussions with other members of the committee tend to confirm this. However, it also appears that at least a plurality of the 16 members tentatively favors a solution to the admissions question that many undergraduates have long opposed--a gradual increase in the overall size of the college to bring in more women. The problems of building a new undergraduate...

Author: By Jeff Leonard, | Title: Secrecy at Harvard | 9/20/1974 | See Source »

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