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When the late-night munchies strike, Harvard students usually flock to the fast-food places around the Square. Besides Elsie's, Tommy's and others of that genre, a variety of pizza and sub shops cash in on the nocturnal hunger pangs...
...enough to keep a newly reformed Chuck Colson repentant for a long time to come. Ironically, Colson had planned to leave the White House soon after Nixon's reelection to become "the Republican Clark Clifford" -the lawyer with the "in" at the White House to whom clients would flock. Now, at 42, he is just another Watergate felon awaiting sentence, disbarment and learning the virtues of softball...
...Najeeb Halaby, who was ousted in 1972. Under Seawell, Pan Am has trimmed several thousand employees from its work force, slashing it to the level of the mid-1960s, when the volume of passengers and freight was much lower. Among those who were forced to bail out were a flock of highly paid vice presidents. Says Analyst Mike Steinberg of Loeb, Rhoades & Co.: "For the first time you have a management structure that knows where they are going...
...years, when the weather turned mild and trees sprouted buds, corporate recruiters would flock to the nation's campuses, intent on signing up the best and the brightest of the graduating seniors. But in the past several years the interviewing often has been a polite and fruitless exercise on both sides: many students were not anxious to join companies-especially those making munitions or polluting the environment-and businesses were not eager to hire large numbers of new graduates amid alternating threats of recession and inflation. This spring the atmosphere has once again changed: the recruiters are back...
...these recruits and now must proceed to find replacement. But, given the nature of the vacancies, he is convinced that the outcome, in the absence of "patronage," will be the recruitment of white males because they will turn out to be, in each instance, the "best man" among a flock of applicants. He fears that a choice of someone less plainly qualified, in a pool where there is active fishing for minority candidates, might subject him to litigation...