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Walter Leonard, President Bok's affirmative action coordinator, defends Harvard's plan by saying that its effects will be felt only in the more distant future. Even this is dubious. Take for example the case of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, which supplies Harvard with the bulk of its academic staff. Of the 550 students who were admitted to GSAS last fall, only eight were black. Under conditions such as these, it is little wonder that Harvard can make the claim it must go slow on affirmative action because it can not find enough qualified minority candidates...
...anniversary evoked memories for many millions who never got near Normandy. All across the U.S. that Tuesday people had offered prayers. Parents and wives of servicemen, whatever their personal fears, could at last believe that the ordeal's end was beginning. Somehow the event seems even more distant than 30 years. There have been other wars, changing alliances, crises. None has stimulated the exultant unity of which D-day was the ensign. Hope, the real victor at Normandy and later World War II battlefields, went on to suffer a succession of blows that only now may be relenting...
...behind and jets round the globe. Long ago, he called foreign policy his "strong suit" and the high points of his presidency have consisted of opening new and promising chapters in U.S. relations with old enemies. Never a particularly adroit campaigner at home, he has been boffo in such distant places as Peking, Moscow and Bucharest. Thus it is completely in character that the President this week is beginning a pellmell, week-long tour of five Middle East countries, with the hope of cementing friendships in a strategic region that until recent months had been largely hostile toward...
Walter Leonard, President Bok's affirmative action coordinator, defends Harvard plan by saying that its effects will be felt only in the more distant future. Even this is dubious. Take for example the case of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, which supplies Harvard with the bulk of its academic staff. Of the 550 students who were admitted to GSAS last fall, only eight were black. Under conditions such as these, it is little wonder that Harvard can make the claim it must go slow on affirmative action because it can not find enough qualified minority candidates for Faculty...
...upper Egypt, her exhausting itinerary included treks to the distant temples of Luxor, Karnak and Abu Simbel, with the Aswan dam thrown in. Through it all, she asked enthusiastic questions, and the ordeal was considerably mitigated by the warmth of the Sadats. Said the Egyptian President: "You are a part of Henry's family here...