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...Fifteen years after he led the most successful farm strike and boycott in United States history, Cesar Chavez last night called on an emotional Law School Forum crowd to boycott table grapes in protest of unfair government and landowner practices...
...Fifteen years ago, when Harvard was in President Bok's words, "under administered," the Corporation made a lot more decisions about the day-to-day workings of the University Since then. Harvard has increased the number of its vice presidents to five, and the Corporation has delegated to them more of the nitty-gritty of administration, finances, legal matters and public affairs...
...consequences of Harvard's newest housing policy could be dire. In 1970, for example, City Councilor Saundra Graham marched on Harvard and disrupted Commencement ceremonies largely in protest against the University's real estate policies. Fifteen years later, it's a new twist on an old theme: Harvard's reprehensible real estate dealings with the community. Now the city is planning a whole host of schemes to retaliate against Harvard, not the least of which is a citywide referendum on next November's ballot asking people to comment on Harvard's real estate dealings. Either the University should immediately halt...
Harvard has likewise joined with fifteen other universities and colleges in urging the American Chamber of Commerce in South Africa to mount active and sustained opposition to the influx control laws integral to the maintenance of apartheid...
While the elks seethed, the hippies did their thing. They restored many of the Victorian jewel-box buildings (the entire town was named a national historic district in 1963) and established tough, low-growth zoning codes. Fifteen summer festivals, including one for mushrooms, sprang up; the eleven- year-old Telluride film festival is one of the most respected in the U.S. Radio station KOTO still plays the marching music. "Some days you can hear 6 1/2 hours of Bob Dylan," says Actress Susan Saint James, who came for the film festival and decided to buy a house five years...