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...last Fall. During the April 1969 strike, Ford came under heavy attack from liberal members of the Faculty as a result of the publication in the Old Mole of a confidential letter to President Pusey in which he advised Pusey on ways to circumvent the Faculty's vote to curtail ROTC...
...initially warned the Administration that the economies could turn the U.S. into a second-rate scientific power in some areas, he later seemed too willing to accept the cuts. Still, DuBridge could be an effective behind-the-scenes advocate. He was particularly influential in persuading Nixon to curtail the use of defoliants in Viet Nam. He also played a key role in the President's decision to announce a ban on germ warfare, and he helped to focus attention on environmental problems. But in the face of the Administration's tightfisted mood, it is doubtful whether he could...
...energy-coal, fuel oil and natural gas. Some forms of rationing have already been imposed, and more may be necessary if winter brings severe weather, strikes in crucial spots, pipeline breaks or new trouble in the Middle East. Though few, if any residential consumers may be asked to curtail their use of fuel or power, there is a possibility of factory closings...
...short-term military success that helped ensure that U.S. troops would be withdrawn from South Viet Nam on schedule, or possibly even faster. The only dissenter was New Hampshire Senator Thomas J. Mclntyre, a Democrat, who said that the action had "widened the war" and might prolong rather than curtail U.S. involvement...
...Class of 1945 gift. (The class's original goal was $900,000, It has since been reduced.) Goodman wanted to propose giving part of it to struggling black colleges in the South "whose faculty are being stolen by Harvard and others to create their own facades, to try to curtail this endless, endless hoarding of money by Harvard when so many other colleges are dying for the lack of only a little." Goodman chose Storer to deal with because, he says, "he's the most humane one in the tight cabal that runs the class-the only one who bothered...