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...third labor force which Harvard has to contend with this fall is the Patrolmen's Association, the union for the 50 members of th Harvard University Police Force. The cops are now working without a contract, a development pretty much par for the course in view of the history of negotiations between Harvard and the P.A. All talks so far have been fruitless, and even though Powers says he expects the dispute to be resolved, both parties have called the situation a stalemate, and a state mediator has been called...
...impending contract negotiations are, nonetheless, Harvard's primary labor concern this fall. It's difficult to say whether strikes are a real possibility, but the thought doesn't faze Powers. "It's bad labor relations to overreact to strikes," Powers says, "In fact the worst thing to do is feign toughness and not be tough...
...broke with her original publisher, Basic Books, and announced plans to revise the book, co-authoring it with her current lover, Richard Goodwin. Goodwin is a freelance presidential adviser with many enemies in government and academic circles. Kearn's announcement prompted a suit from Basic Books alleging breach of contract, a caustic editorial in The Wall Street Journal, and the revelation that the manuscript she submitted to the Gov department had already been edited, for about $8000, by fiction writer Michael Rothschild...
Already there has been some success--but a steady trickle, not a deluge. In June 1974 State contracted with the center for a set of studies and Washington seminars to be prpared by five of the center's Scholars, Ulam and Keenan among them. This year, Toumanoff says, State has accepted a contract extension that will engage about five more scholars on issues like U.S.-Soviet trade, Soviet agriculture and long-range economic thinking, and guesses on Soviet succession (Kremlinology--who's sitting next to Brezhnev at what state dinners...
This hasn't brought in all that much money--$90,000 with the contract and its extension, but most of that, Toumanoff says, is absorbed by costs. The center's scholars seem hardly thrilled by the lure of government power Ulam seems to speak for the center's members when he says "We don't want to study for the twentieth time the Soviet succession." Doctorow, typically, puts it more harshly: "The center can't get money precisely because of their isolation from the 'evil' centers of power, which I don't think are particularly evil. We ought...