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Harvard might well appear dormant by comparison to 1968. Disinterest and confusion hamper the initial efforts of liberals trying to boost the campaign of Sen. George McGovern. (After all, the polls--which have assumed an absurdly prominent role in a Presidential year tainted by media overkill--show Massachusetts within President Nixon's reach...
Both groups were dormant in the beginning of the 1971-72 school year, but with last Spring's revival of activism, the New Left once again came to life as two similar ad hoc groups, the New American Movement and the Cambridge Movement...
...other remedy failed (including such folksy "cures" as injecting trees with turpentine or whacking galvanized nails into their trunks), scientists believe they have found a way to stop the fungus that causes the disease and the elm-bark beetles that spread it. The new approach involves two steps: spraying dormant elms in early spring with a pesticide called methoxychlor, which is lethal to the beetle but harmless to most other insects, and then spraying again in June with a chemical called Benlate, which attacks only the fungus. Instead of spraying, the arborist may also inject Benlate directly into the tree...
Czechoslovakia is no longer regarded as a danger. The border with China is relatively dormant. Viet Nam, despite the mining of Haiphong, is being downplayed by the Soviet leadership. The byword is realism; the new necessity is to improve conditions at home. One hears it privately from friends and colleagues: the Soviet Union is reordering its priorities. Nuclear sufficiency and a SALT agreement mean a reallocation of resources and more spending on consumer goods. "We are about to turn a corner," a woman official told me. "The summit could mean changes at home as well as in our relations with...
Quite suddenly, the long-dormant job market for top-and middle-level executives has turned around. "March was the biggest month in our 26-year history," exults Frederick Linton, president of Boyden Associates Inc., a Manhattan-based executive-search firm. Thomas Meade, president of Kremple & Meade in Los Angeles, says that his company has experienced "one of the greatest reversals ever-from a turgid executive job market to an extremely active...