Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...played horseshoes or volleyball or strolled the grassy area, they were studied by guards armed with shotguns and rifles who observed the familiar scene from seven of the eight watchtowers. In addition, about ten guards were down among the men, circulating, waiting, watching for trouble. It was 7:30 p.m., pleasant and cool. A gentle breeze was blowing, and the soft Tennessee twilight was just drawing on. Darkness would not fall for two hours or so?plenty of time for anyone to get away, if he could make it over the 14-to 18-ft. stonewalls...
Belmont Park race track, a sprawling oasis of green and gentle silence just half an hour from Times Square, has been Seattle Slew's home since he was broken, and its winners circle is familiar ground. There he won the first race he entered, a six-furlong sprint. His dazzling 9¾-length victory in the Champagne Stakes last fall-bettering Secretariat's time in the premier race for two-year-olds-earned him the Eclipse Award as the season's best juvenile colt. From a barn on the Belmont backside, he trained for his victories...
...There's nothing like personal contact as far as I'm concerned. We feel we still get the good student-athletes, we get great athletes. But when a guy's in the kid's house, talking to him, talking to his parents--it makes it tougher on us." The familiar idea that Harvard is good enough to "sell itself" to prospective students fades a bit when a Brown or Yale recruiter is around to give the opposition a hard sell, and to clear up misconceptions a high school student may have about Ivy League life...
Questions of this sort are familiar to the schools which now have programs. If their experience is any indication, the movement--if there is one--toward a women's studies program will take several years. The process, slow as it may be, does seem to have begun, and Harvard may not be deficient in this one area for too much longer...
...UNIVERSITY'S lengthy and concerted campaign against the unionization of workers in the Medical area marks another example of Harvard's disappointingly familiar insensitivity to the best interests of the University community. In a two-and-a-half year legal battle against the efforts of District 65 of the Distributive Workers of America to hold an election among Med Area workers. Harvard and its lawyers have consistently sought to prevent over 1000 University clerical and technical employees from gaining the right to bargain effectively with their monolithic employer. And now, even after the National Labor Relations Board has upheld...