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...Patrolmen's Association, the union for the 50 members of th Harvard University Police Force. The cops are now working without a contract, a development pretty much par for the course in view of the history of negotiations between Harvard and the P.A. All talks so far have been fruitless, and even though Powers says he expects the dispute to be resolved, both parties have called the situation a stalemate, and a state mediator has been called...
Nine months of laborious negotiations over a second-stage disengagement in Sinai have taught Egypt, Israel and U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger one lesson. Gone is the euphoric mood of "guarded optimism" that surrounded negotiations at the outset and fathered fruitless hopes that a settlement was imminent. Last week as the talks intensified once again, the participants took extraordinary pains to deny rumors that the deal so long hoped for had been reached...
...white players, but some observers do feel that Jim Rice, say, the team's other rookie whose performance is only a shade less amazing that Lynn's might not be getting the recognition he deserves. Do the Boston Red Sox have a systematic policy of racism. It's fruitless to argue specifies did black so and so get traded for white so and so--but in a general sense the Red Sox record in race relations is somewhat less honorable than that of the NAACP. Boston was the last franchise in the major leagues to sign a black player--passing...
Phil Ochs. He sang at the Chicago Seven trial. He's been dragged out for every rally from here to Golden Gate Park. Phil Ochs must be very tired now, because not only has he weathered years and years of fruitless radical protest, and the anti-war movement almost from the beginning, but his vehicle--guitar-strumming folkiness--has an introverted, "I am pained" aspect that makes his mission doubly exhausting. Indeed, he didn't show up at a gig in Lenox last weekend, and reports have it that Ochs is highly difficult to get along with nowadays. Maybe...
Real sharks were also required. Live ones were intercut with Mattey's creation for added verisimilitude. A dead one was needed to play the shark the townspeople thought was the killer. Some local fishermen promised they could provide the genuine article. After several fruitless days -at a daily wage of $100-the anglers came up with unsuitable catches. Frantic, the film company sent to Florida, and a 13-ft. tiger shark was flown up, packed in ice like a gourmet CARE package. The imported fish hung from a hook on the Edgartown dock for four days, sending up such...