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Halberstam's bounciest chapters are about the decade's leading entrepreneurs: William Levitt, the former Seabee who applied rapid building techniques to construct Levittowns; Eugene Ferkauf, whose E.J. Korvettes chain earned him the title "the Discount King"; Kemmons Wilson, founder of Holiday Inns; and Ray Kroc, who turned the McDonald brothers' Santa Anita hamburger ) stand into a national feeding trough...
Seven Faculty members in the department interviewed this week said allegations of fraud happen rarely--"about once every 10 years," one professor said. Professors say they routinely duplicate experiments and construct series of tests to build on one another so as to catch fraud or other errors. Faculty members said that the supervision of researchers by professors is not fool-proof...
That brave repudiation of a regime bent on perpetuating white hegemony in South Africa earned Mandela a lifetime's incarceration, while his jailers pressed on with their megalomaniac construct called grand apartheid. At the same time, his stance just as surely launched South Africa on the road to democracy. Last week the country took an irreversible step forward when black and white political leaders declared that every citizen will be able to vote to choose the government. With that historic agreement, Mandela and South Africa's 28 million blacks will be able to savor the success of their freedom struggle...
Academic courses may affect some students' ideas--Lewis reports that Afro-Am 175, "Race and Science," strengthened his conviction that race is merely a social construct--but may have little utility in convincing everyone of the benefits of an identity-sensitive university...
...feeling at Harvard that the chairman is representative of resistance would be incorrect," says his spokesperson Col. F. William Smullen. "He was principally concerned about the effect the changing of the policy would have on unit cohesion and morals. We are now working very vigorously to construct a policy to implement the presidential program...