Word: felting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some 20,000 troops in Cuba and remnants of that force have remained there ever since. According to one of the breakfast participants, the President speculated that the Soviet brigade could be "deeply embarrassing to Castro when he is trying to palm himself off as a neutral. The President felt that it was advantageous to us to expose [the brigade] at this time to embarrass Castro." This was a reference to the meeting of the nonaligned nations. Carter almost certainly was only trying to find a bright side to the controversy, but his remark about embarrassing Castro seemed to coincide...
...asked her to remain as chairman of the department, but I wanted Professor Ferguson to chair the executive committee and that is what she didn't want. She felt a dual authority structure was confusing," he notes...
...surprised by the high turnover, since the K-School had moved from Littauer Center to a new building. "Any organization that goes through rapid change almost inevitably experiences a fall-out. When the observatory lost the NASA program we had a whacking turnover rate. We all felt bad about it, but it happens. There is no one school at Harvard you can point to and say, 'Aha! They're the bad guys,'" Cantor says...
...union is happy with the department's decision to eliminate the biannual physical stress test, which the police felt increased insecurity over their jobs (if an officer didn't pass the test he was removed from the force). "I think it did something for the morale of the police department and the morale of the people in the health services," Chafin says. Responding to union complaints of three years ago, the department has also improved the quality of the equipment officers use. Chafin claims the new emergency equipment and a new fleet of police cruisers with alley lights and better...
...conceived--Walters was appointed chief of the new division. In the late 1960s, Walters taught a General Education course which covered the topics of drugs and adolescent development. Although he still lectures occasionally at the Medical School, he says he misses teaching undergraduates. "I felt that I learned more about the Harvard community while teaching that I have here," he says...