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...exceptionally well fixed to cope with a layoff, he belongs to the group in the U.S. population whose unemployment most debilitates the nation's economy. They are the heads of households, and their unemployment rate has jumped in the past year from 3% to 5.4%. Whole families depend on these breadwinners. When they lose jobs, their spouses and children reduce their own spending, and the family drains its savings. Household heads have a tougher time than single adults in making ends meet on their unemployment-compensation checks. They tend to be people who have locked themselves into big payments...
EQUAL ACCESS admissions for the Class of 1980 will not mean any significant increase in the number of undergraduate women because Radcliffe's applicant pool is still less than half of Harvard's. The speed with which the admissions ratios are equalized under this policy will depend upon the success of increased recruiting of women applicants by the admissions office and alumni(ae) clubs. Since Harvard's alumni recruiting network is much larger and more widespread than Radcliffe's, a large part of the task of increasing women applicants will fall to Harvard alumni...
Since Radcliffe Athletics fixes its budget six months ahead of time, the track team will have to depend on alumnae and alumni contributions...
...preference for the professional school. It is clear at Harvard that research on policy issues will continue whether or not any new programs are established. The major new opportunity lies in preparing students for careers in public service. And in the end, the performance of our public institutions will depend much more on the quality of their leaders than on the sophistication of their technical staffs. As a result, if Harvard is to make the maximum contribution to public life, we must devote our energies toward educating those who will occupy positions of authority in public institutions...
...week) and cost $15. Her students, who have included Singer Anita Bryant, the wife of Astronaut Frank Borman and those of a dozen Miami Dolphin football players, have been taught to find happiness by living entirely for their husbands. Like Fascinating Women, Total Women celebrate male dominance and depend on guile and sauciness to get their way, but they use sex more overtly than their Fascinating sisters...