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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...home. It used to be that Harvard students--a lot of them anyway--were quite radical, and a few years ago there were building occupations and an active SDS chapter and so forth around here. Conservative alumni--one never hears about liberal alumni--are supposed to be in a constant froth about Harvard's extreme liberalism. In 1968 Harvard president Nathan M. Pusey '28 called Harvard students "Walter Mittys of the left," adding, "They play at being revolutionaries and fancy themselves rising to positions of command atop the debris as the structures of society come crashing down...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann, | Title: What Harvard Means | 9/1/1975 | See Source »

Thus, after six years, the British army is still caught in a couple of seemingly insoluble dilemmas. If it should pull out, the upshot would probably be all-out civil war. Yet the army's presence is a constant temptation to snipers and the resulting casualties may eventually create a "bring-the-boys-home" mood in England. Meanwhile, the "Loyalist" camp, uncertain of Britain's dedication to Northern Ireland, is already becoming a Protestant Irish independence movement-one capable of fielding an army of some 25,000 men. In effect, the British Army faces an impossible task...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN IRELAND: May God Avert His Eyes | 9/1/1975 | See Source »

...network followed the political blacklist in its hiring. Paley was never behind Edward R. Murrow's famous documentary series See It Now, and Murrow and Co-Producer Fred Friendly spent their own money to advertise it. Paley eventually killed the show, saying: "I don't want this constant stomachache every time you do a controversial subject...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Out of Focus | 9/1/1975 | See Source »

...volcanism-seems finally to have clarified the underlying cause of earthquakes. It holds that the surface of the earth consists of about a dozen giant, 70-mile-thick rock plates. Floating on the earth's semimolten mantle and propelled by as yet undetermined forces, the plates are in constant motion. Where they meet, friction sometimes temporarily locks them in place, causing stresses to build up near their edges. Eventually the rock fractures, allowing the plates to resume their motion. It is that sudden release of pent-up energy that causes earthquakes. Off Japan, for instance, the Pacific plate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FORECAST: EARTH QUAKE | 9/1/1975 | See Source »

...aggravates the economy's malaise. "Until there is stability of some kind, no one will have any confidence," observed a Lisbon businessman. "Right now, I'd accept anything except the Maoists if the government could only make it stick." Foreign investors have been scared off by the constant flux of the M.F.A.'s policies, and speeches such as that last week by Premier Gonçalves before a labor leaders' meeting in Lisbon. "Ours is a fight to the death against capitalism!" he boomed. "The forces of great capital, whether domestic or international, are multiple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PORTUGAL: Western Europe's First Communist Country? | 8/11/1975 | See Source »

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