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Richard Nixon began the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks even while allowing Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi to come to America and fill his military market basket. "I think I can prove," mused Nixon a while back, "that the arms Americans have sold have rarely been used in aggression, while those of the Russians and other nations have been used repeatedly. Are we to ignore requests from our friends in this kind of world...
Next year the committee must produce yet another slate of Core courses. This time, they should encourage meaningful student involvement, perhaps through concentrators' committees. These departmental panels could evaluate Core courses in their field and suggest new courses. Pfeffer said these "little research groups" could assist and fill in the gaps in the Faculty subcommittee's work...
...writers who've made their prejudices about women sportswriters obvious in their profiles of her. Of course, one can't overlook the Times's out-of-court settlement of a 1978 class action suit charging it with discriminatory hinning and promotion practices. Or its subsequent agreement to fill 25 per cent of its senior editorial staff positions with women and other minorities. But as A.M. Rosenthal executive editor of the Times, insists. "We didn't choose a woman sports editor. We choose a sports editor. The fact that she's a woman is not a handicap. In fact...
Nearing retirement at 65, Richard Salant, the acerbic president of CBS News since 1961, told friends he was planning to fill his days by writing a book and, perhaps, giving lectures to journalism students. But last week, in a move that amazed the television industry, Salant announced that on May 1, the day after he leaves the CBS payroll, he will become vice chairman of rival NBC, responsible for news and corporate planning. "I'm terrified of retirement," Salant explained. "The truth is, I don't know how to teach or how to write a book...
Senior Nelia Worsley, who hung up her goalie skates last month to fill the oarssomen's bow position, said yesterday, "We kept our pace solid, and the low cadence helped deal with the wind. We're psyched about the rest of the season...