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...another widely-publicized tenure decision, President Bok overruled the near-unanimous vote of the Biology Department to give Robert L. Trivers '65 a tenured slot. Bok apparently felt that Trivers's work, which provided some of the foundations for sociobiology, was too controversial to ensure his presence would not embarrass Harvard...
...increasingly sedate American newspaper scene. The trend is all the other way: newspapers in monopoly cities being sold for huge sums to absentee conglomerates. Unless a local editor with courage and energy insists otherwise, the natural commercial impulse is to put out complacent, unenterprising papers that don't embarrass the local powers that be and make no waves. So far Murdoch, a fellow refreshingly free of cultural pretensions, seems to be aiming only at circulation, not quality. Instead of being bright, new and inventive, he seems curiously oldfashioned...
That is more than campaign oratory. Indian industrial production in 1976 rose about 11 % over the previous year. Exports are at record levels. Foreign exchange reserves have mounted so high -three times their level of just over a year ago-as to embarrass Indian diplomats who continue to ask international lending agencies for aid. The inflation rate, which hit 26% in 1974, has been tamed. For a while in late 1975 and early 1976, India was one of the few countries where prices, on average, went down; they are rising again now, at an estimated-and manageable-9% a year...
...before I publicly embarrass all you guys n' gals in print, it's time first to declare the co-winners of the Sports Cube Disk Frisk Treasure Chest of Prizes. They are Ed "Don't Bug Me, I've Got My Radio On" Minar of Quincy House and Wendy Anne "Put Number G-18 on, Mac" King of Cambridge. Both over-grown teenagers scored an astonishing 94 correct answers out of 105. As a result, Aronson and I are currently trying to get this Top 40 match made in heaven together...
...Daoud arrested and why? That was the question of the week. The most plausible answer was Israel, whose intelligence agents keep close watch on P.L.O. terrorists. By alerting friends in the DST to Abu Daoud's presence in France, they could both embarrass Giscard for his pro-Arab policy and score another round against the Palestinians. Yet despite reports that Israeli agents had tipped off the French in Beirut that Abu Daoud was on his way to Paris, intelligence sources in Tel Aviv denied that they had had anything to do with it. One top-level official said...