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...developed by Edouard Pestel, professor of engineering at West Germany's Hannover University and Mihajlo Mesarovic, director of the Systems Research Center at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. Concentrating on ten separate world regions, the model is fed data-population growth, food production, climate changes, energy supplies, etc.-that can permit economists to test scenarios for various situations. West Germany, for instance, is already using the model to find out how to transfer some industrial production to less-developed countries without harming its own economy...
...Mary to a certain extent continues our emphasis on women's rights, the questions of hunger in the world, etc. She is the Avignon or anti-Pope of the Harvard-Radcliffe chaplaincy," Griffin said...
...room is hung with photographs of himself doing handstands. Each is labelled. "Sergei at 73" "Sergei at 67" etc. Gaposhkin describes his life's ideals in classical Greek terms. "I aimed to perfect my mind and my body." Tiny but muscular, the 77 year-old Gaposhkin is irrepressible. In the midst of conversation he stretches his arms up to the ceiling and implores God, "Why did You give me this incredible desire?" He is a bit of a dandy too; his yellow and brown patent leather shoes dictate the tone of his dress...
Finally, it is strange indeed that as one peruses the experience of other top-flight universities that created Afro-American Studies curriculum over the past eight years (Yale, Stanford, Princeton, California, etc.) only at Harvard is it still possible for a small cabal of black militant ideologues to play havoc with the academic and intellectual quality of Afro-American Studies programs. This is a shameful state of affairs and the Harvard faculty and community ought to find the will to put an end to it. Martin Kilson, Professor of Government
...writing to express my feelings about the present academic calendar here at Harvard. I was upset by Dean Pipkin's statement that the schedule may not be changed to pre-Christmas exams, etc. because "only" 60% of the students polled reacted negatively to the present calendar...