Word: discussion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ezra F. Vogel, professor of Sociology and an expert on China, said last night, "we don't have any more information that rounds out the story so it's hard to discuss the matter with any precision," but he added that the reports "sound true...
...describe Dean Claude Welch's "critical appraisal" of graduate studies in religion [Oct. 18]. His categorization of the University of California, Santa Barbara program is based on prejudgment supplemented by flimsy, outdated, inaccurate and misread evidence. Dean Welch did not visit this campus, nor did he systematically discuss the religious studies program with anyone on this campus. Apparently he was content to fabricate his dubious thunderbolts while enthroned on Berkeley's Olympian heights...
...only previous appearance of a Communist Chinese delegation in the U.N. occurred in 1950, when Peking sent a nine-man team led by General Wu Hsiu-chuan to New York to "discuss" the Korean crisis. One U.N. veteran who heard the general's shrill tirades remembers Wu as "the loudest man we've ever had here." Peking's leaders have never exactly venerated the institution. Leery of its peace-keeping attempts, Chou has derisively called the U.N. "an international gendarmerie." In a recent interview in a Japanese newspaper, the Mao regime's leading intellectual, Kuo Mojo, called...
...airline executive might have. At the start of this year, he pioneered in cutting back schedules to eliminate flights that were taking off with many empty seats. Airline men had long felt that move to be necessary, but the Civil Aeronautics Board would not let them get together to discuss which flights to drop. Carlson gambled on a unilateral 18% cut in United's schedules, with CAB approval. "It was a little gamesy," he concedes, "but it worked." Majoi competitors followed...
Hill's duties will be to make people more aware of problems that exist and to evaluate data on the crime situation at Harvard, Hall said. He will also be meeting with committees from all the houses to discuss security problems and possible improvements. His findings will be reported to both Hall and Robert Tonis, chief of Harvard Police...