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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...about the fate of American universities which had always had "a peculiarly practical orientation," and "very little--perhaps too little--of the ivory tower." Harvard has hardly been an ivory tower these past few years. Its reliance on government funds (and more recently, with the Med School's Monsanto contract, on industrial funds) continues to increase. And its impact on government has been significant--Ford's administration is the first to have three former Harvard academics as cabinet members: Kissinger, Dunlop, and Schlesinger...
Sonny claims, in a $25 million suit, that ex-Friend Geffen "induced" her to break her contracts with Sonny's ironically named Cher Corp. Whatever the truth legally, there is no doubt Geffen was helpful to her in a difficult time, carefully orchestrating a schedule of public appearances and signing her-for a very comforting price-to a contract with Warner Bros. Records. (The first album, Stars, produced by Jimmy Webb, will be released next week...
Four hundred union workers of the State, City and Town Employees Union, Local 195, an independent union and the largest employees union in Cambridge with over 700 members, assembled at Rindge Technical School's auditorium in opposition to each of Sullivan's proposals for a new contract replacing one that expired December 31 of last year...
Exuding somewhat less enthusiasm than his future employer, McInally said. "The only thing I can say about the contract is that it was bigger than my Harvard scholarship...
McInally said yesterday that he had negotiated the contract himself. He said the money he saved in potential agent fees was probably greater than the amount an agent could have added to his contract...