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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...staff of TIME'S Nation section, the news sometimes seems to find a rhythm of its own. Often a story starts the week as an event of modest consequence and then unfolds into a major national controversy - and a cover story. So it went last week, as concern over the discovery of up to 3,000 Soviet combat troops in Cuba grew so intense that it threatened ratification of the SALT II agreement, strained U.S.-Soviet relations, and presented the President with a substantial diplomatic dilemma. Observes Otto Friedrich, senior editor in charge of Nation: "When U.S. Senators...
...this latest crisis, agrees: "The symbolic significance we attach to what the Soviets are doing is as important as the objective facts. The mere perception of power determines the behavior of nations as often as the use of power." Pines was one of five writers assigned to the cover package by Friedrich and World Senior Editor John Elson. TIME correspondents cabled details of the developments from Moscow, Washington and Havana, where Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott had been covering the Conference of Nonaligned Countries. Talbott found no shortage of soldierly looking Soviets in the Cuban capital. "Every morning I went jogging...
Last year Harvard had a payroll of more than $150 million, but that had to cover 11,500 full-time employees as well as part-time workers. Daniel D. Cantor, director of personnel, points out that an inflationary spiral causes employee morale to topple because the depressed economy spills over into the workers' lives and job performance. Still, Wickenden says she doesn't sense any waves of discontent because of tight money; in fact, she says that in ten years of working in the personnel office at the Ed School, "I don't remember anyone leaving because they weren...
...Core committee on Sciences last spring ruled that Science Core courses must include a laboratory section. "Evolutionary Biology" includes four lab sessions, each devoted to an area of specialized current research. One session will cover behavior hormones and reproduction in lizards, based on present research by David P. Crews, assistant professor of Biology...
Asked to summarize briefly what topics he will cover in his course, Social Analysis 12, "Crime and Human Nature," James Q. Wilson, Shattuck Professor of Government, winces before answering: "You know, all the biggies: crime, war, revolution, sex." He admits it all sounds somewhat overreaching and "a little apocalyptic," but believes he and his co-instructor, Richard J. Herrnstein, professor of Psychology, can keep everything under control with guidance from the Core report...