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These days the leaders of the New Right are not talking seriously about forming a third party-the idea is too impractical. That leaves them only one way to gain national power: by taking over the G.O.P. Clearly it is far too early to say whether or not they will be able to succeed, but even if they do, they would still have problems. Although they are more pragmatic about techniques these days, the New Rightists tend to be just as purist as the old right on the issues. Hewing a hard ideological line would...
...addition, the people behind the "Eat-In" are trying to gain official recognition as the "Student Lobby," which would solicit student opinion on various issues affecting their lives...
...relatives on his mother's side who date back to the Mayflower. More combative than his genteel forebears, Lowell was fascinated by power. He often chose for his theme the doomed great in history: Racine's Phaedra, Mary Stuart and Cleopatra, and Alexander, "double-marching to gain the limits of the globe." Classmates at his prep school, St. Marks, called him Cal, after the despotic Roman emperor Caligula, because he was so imperious. The name stuck all his life. But a critic who described him as "an Old Testament prophet in ungodly times" was perhaps closer...
Also surging Baltimore Orioles did manage to gain ground, though, downing the Toronto Blue Jays to close within 1 1/2 games of first. Oriole Lee May crunched a three-run homer and Bird pitcher Mike Flanagan hurled a six-hitter as Baltimore picked up a 7-1 victory, their 15th win in the last 19 games...
...Congress is now beginning to consider a series of Carter administration proposals to amend the National Labor Relations Act, making it more difficult for employers such as Harvard to take unfair advantage of their wealth and size to prevent unionization. By speeding up the process by which workers may gain the right to hold organizing elections and by placing limits on the extent to which employers may use dubious legal tactics to avoid bargaining with certified unions, the bill would generally strengthen the hands of unions that have a solid base of support. These changes would not only benefit University...