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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...means to be black, Spanish-American or white. Is it really in the interests of the fight against racism to have official legal definitions of certain races or minority groups? Is it really wise to label and pigeonhole every American in order to know what special quotas each can fill? The final disaster will occur when the government starts issuing official heredity status cards to all citizens...

Author: By Peter J. Ferrara, | Title: Abolish Affirmative Action Quotas | 5/25/1976 | See Source »

Many in television are ex-newspapermen and, being aware that an entire half-hour newscast would not fill even one newspaper page, are apologetic for the superficiality and skimpiness of what they do. They hope to see network news shows extended to a full hour. Perhaps they should relax a little: in four minutes a night, they are not going to make anyone knowledgeable in Keynesian economics. All forms of journalism have their own point of satiety. Richard Salant, president of CBS News, says that Cronkite "has often said, but never meant" that he longs to end a broadcast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWSWATCH by Thomas Griffith: Happy Is Bad, but Heavy Isn't Good | 5/17/1976 | See Source »

Street will fill out the last year of the three-year term of Patricia A. Zander, preceptor in Music. Zander resigned last month because of what sources close to her described as dissatisfaction with the Music Department's de-emphasis of performance...

Author: By Joseph Straus, | Title: Music Department Picks Tison Street To Teach Music 180 | 5/14/1976 | See Source »

...mouths are. Since Harvard has thus far refused to assume the responsibility for guaranteeing a real choice to women, the Radcliffe community is morally obligated to do so. Until such time as the Radcliffe-Harvard student health plan covers the cost of pregnancy and of abortion we must fill the vacuum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Abortion Aid | 5/10/1976 | See Source »

Schlaudroff said yesterday he was appointed to the new position because he had proposed its creation and was qualified to fill it. He said the job will cut down costs on the force by decreasing the number of supervisors necessary...

Author: By Gay Seidman, | Title: Security Patrol Members Charge Favoritism in Force | 5/10/1976 | See Source »

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