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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...result of tracing their roots, observed Margaret Mead, "some feel less lonely, some feel more culpable, but all know more about who they are." Ultimately, the search can be a sociable and socially valuable undertaking-one that can reunite long-parted clans and alienated generations and fill their members with a tingling sense of identity and achievement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: White Roots: Looking for Great-Grandpa | 3/28/1977 | See Source »

Cleveland-based Sherwin-Williams Co., the sole U.S. producer of saccharin, at first considered closing its saccharin plant in Cincinnati after the ban was declared. Last week it decided to keep the plant open to meet demand. Currently, the plant is operating day and night to fill a sudden accumulation of orders-enough, says Plant Manager Kenneth H. Wilkinson, "to go another 30 days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REGULATION: The Sour Taste of a Sweetener Ban | 3/28/1977 | See Source »

Nevertheless, some of Bok's own biases emerge clearly. He is obviously preoccupied with the relation of the University to the rest of society--about the extent to which faculty members train their students to fill some useful role. This is an elitist view of Harvard, of course; he concludes with a brief statement of the role of the private university, describing such institutions as training grounds for the future leaders of America. "Society cannot develop the leadership it needs," he writes, "unless its ablest young people have an opportunity to come together and learn under the best possible conditions...

Author: By Gay Seidman, | Title: Contemplative Complacency | 3/28/1977 | See Source »

...freshman's goal was to avoid the Quad, he'd do best to list those River Houses he thought would fill up latest in the assignment process, Collier said...

Author: By Roger M. Klein, | Title: Gambling With the Computer | 3/26/1977 | See Source »

...difficult to decipher which segments of the University community the Fox plan, as approved, benefits. Filling Canaday Hall entries has long been an unpleasant responsibility for masters of over-crowded River Houses. The Vorenbergs, masters of Dunster House, have had but one volunteer roommate group to fill their 20-person Canaday entry in two years. And understandably so: Canaday has become an artificial mini-Quad; many Canaday upperclassmen must walk as far for dinner at their assigned Houses as Quad people must walk to some classes. Only six River House masters face the no-win task of assigning students...

Author: By Roger M. Klein, | Title: The Fox Trot | 3/25/1977 | See Source »

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