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...team sport, one weak link can curtail the efforts of the other players, and Crimson coaches are hoping that this won't be the case with the current edition of the Harvard defense. Sure, Joe Restic has welcomed the Ivy League's best defensive line back into the fold along with a potent pack of linebackers, but "unless the defensive backs can handle the one-on-one coverage, we can't do what we want with these other people. We can't use the blitz; we can't put pressure on the opposition," Restic said yesterday...
...after Commencement, six directors of Harvard Magazine resigned, charging that the University has tried to curtail their editorial integrity following a financial takeover by restructuring the editorial board. The University, which has supported the magazine through years of deficits, insists it should have a number of representatives on the board. However, University administrators claimed Harvard did not want full editorial control--just financial...
...need not bus suburban students into downtown schools unless it could be proved that both city and suburban officials willfully sought to segregate their schools. Several alternatives to mass busing have also appeared and received the blessing of Congress, which has acted strongly over the past few years to curtail the Department of Health, Education and Welfare's power to order busing. Among the options: so-called magnet, or specialty, schools that offer courses not available elsewhere in the system. Herewith a report card on how the situation stands in a sampling of U.S. cities...
...significant shift toward smaller, lighter cars (although many cars designed to meet the gradually increasing gasoline-efficiency standards, and thus avoid a tax penalty, could readily seat six people), but that trend has already begun. People on limited incomes might well have to plan shopping trips more carefully and curtail nonessential driving. Teen-agers in middle-income families might have to bicycle to school instead of driving their own cars...
...unprecedented action, the Corporation this week voted in favor of a shareholder resolution attempting to curtail the Arab boycott of Israel. The anti-boycott move came on a vote-which Harvard cast yesterday at Manufacturers Hanover Trust's annual shareholders meeting-seeking to stop the bank from issuing restrictive letters of credit complying with the Arab boycott...