Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard's enthusiasm for ROTC had died down to more modern levels. Since participation in ROTC made undergraduates draft-exempt, many took refuge in the program while expending as little effort as possible. Two Harvard students received dishonorable discharges in an incident that foreshadowed Colonel Pell's dismissal of four ROTC graduates last spring...
Roar of the Antique. While their risks are lower on the ground, old-car fanciers yield nothing to the airplane addicts in their fervor for the old and authentic. Proof of their enthusiasm was the 20,000 who showed up last Sunday in Brookline, Mass., to preview Parke-Bernet's old-car auction of 65 antique and classic models. For antique collectors, brass is gold, since 1915 is the year when most designers stopped using brass as trim. Thus, when a bright yellow 1913 Mercer Raceabout, model 35-J, with a "monocle" windshield, restored by retired Los Angeles Fireman...
...Harlem River group is following a concept long familiar elsewhere, particularly in white rural America, where cooperatives have long supplied services ranging from credit to electric power. Lately, the idea has won enthusiasm in the ghettos. Following last summer's riot, some 50 rudimentary "buying clubs" appeared in Detroit, at first merely to provide food in short supply after existing stores were burned or looted clean. One such venture, called Community Consumer Coop, Inc., has now made plans to open a neighborhood dairy store...
Whimsical Inventory. Many such ventures soon expire from a sad lack of managerial experience. Begun with much enthusiasm three years ago, San Francisco's Hunter's Point Co-op was underfinanced and ill-managed, soon encountered gaps in its shelves as well as in its clientele. Last month Safeway Stores rescued it from near bankruptcy, moved in to revamp its whimsical inventory, which included a $3,000 supply of imported wines. In Los Angeles a similar post-Watts effort called the "Unity Market" is now just a memory. Says Watts's Rev. James Hargett...
...Harvard Teaching Fellows Federation, formed last year with much enthusiasm, had faded, partly due to our failure of leadership, but also to a lack of commitment by the majority of teaching fellows. The Dunlop Report, and the failure of the administration to respond to letters by sympathetic faculty members in our behalf, indicates how important it is for teaching fellows to act to improve their own situation. It is really too late to do anything this year about one of the most exploited groups in the Harvard community. But if anyone is interested for next year in reviving what...