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...night, MIT Linguistics professor Noam Chomsky called the conference a reflection of the "much-too-long-delayed questioning of American society" within the professions. Linking it to the March M.I.T. work stoppage (whose slogan was "March 4 is a movement, not a day"), he urged other professional groups to follow the example of the CCAS. Harvard graduate student Jim Peck, one of the prime movers of the CCAS conference, says, "CCAS is a movement, not a committee...
...Harvard curriculum. In January, the committee finally released its report. It urged the Faculty to set up a degree program in Afro-American Studies, and the Faculty voted on February 11 to approve the plan. Selected sections of the Rosovsky Report dealing with the Afro-American Studies program follow. Deleted clauses refer to criteria for selecting Faculty, expansion of Afro-American-oriented courses in established departments, and development of an Afro-American Studies research center...
TIME Correspondent David Whiting, who chartered a boat to follow the fleet, reported that there are other forms of recreation on board. Noticing one attractive girl dressed in a black leather outfit, Whiting asked her if there were wives along. "Some," she replied, "are just girl friends." Russian crewmen greeted Whiting with smiles, waves and lots of picture taking. When their officers were not looking, they were happy to exchange their pungent Russian cigarettes for American filters. Mostly, the Russians gave the thumbs-up sign and observed that the fishing was good...
...confrontation at Harvard. The lesson is that force, at best, offers only temporary solutions. What the American university needs above all is a new integrity?moral authority, the unsolicited respect of the young and the old alike. Only thus can the university be immune to extremism and able to follow its calling of truth and reason?the role that Sir Eric Ashby of Cambridge University defined as providing an "environment for the continuous polishing of one mind by another...
...bitch sans peur et sans reproche." Author Martha Gellhorn was No. 3-he wooed her during the Spanish Civil War and separated from her in World War II. She complained that he took too few baths-and besides, she had her own career as novelist and journalist to follow. Hemingway classified her with his mother, whom he condemned as "a domineering shrew." Baker appears to stand discreetly in awe of Mary Hemingway (called "Papa's Pocket Rubens" by her husband), who stood by him from...