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...that fall. Timothy Leary was convicted for the first time, and Harvard put four students on probation for smoking marijuana--one of them, stricken with repentence, had confessed to his mother, who tipped off the University. The Harvard Undergraduate Council opined that letting women use Lamont would cause irreparable harm to the "male emotional stability factor," although the council said it saw nothing wrong with men continuing to use Hilles. "Boys cause less disturbance in a female environment than vice versa, the HUC explained. Nevertheless, the new perspective on other kinds of disturbance occasionally demonstrated startling pervasiveness. Eight hundred Harvard...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg, | Title: A History of the Strike | 4/10/1974 | See Source »

...they are also wearying. The movie Conroy is unafflicted by the moments of despair that overtook the real one and made his efforts heroic. Finally fired for continually bucking the system, Conroy in his book had the grace to wonder if his intervention had not done more harm than good. Perhaps it was cruel to elevate hopes to a level impossible of realization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Sentimental Education | 4/8/1974 | See Source »

...completely exonerated. They are the real heroes and the true patriots, not those who helped return Korea and Indochina to General LeMay's stone age. The latter must include, but not be limited to, those shot down over Indochina while murdering, maiming and wounding Indochinese who have never harmed or threatened to harm the American people in any way. And could not do so even if they wished, which they...

Author: By Hugh B. Hester, | Title: My Lai Six Years Later | 3/12/1974 | See Source »

...shipments of rival firms as well. He then slashed prices still further, and bought up ruined rivals. By 1884, Standard Oil was selling more than 80% of the oil that flowed out of U.S. wells. Though no body today defends his tactics, historians still debate whether Rockefeller did more harm or good. He organized a chaotic industry into a coordinated and efficient network of wells, pipelines, refineries, tankers and marketing facilities, establishing vertical integration, which is the' dominant form of the industry to this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Exxon: Testing the International Tiger | 2/18/1974 | See Source »

...wall-to-wall carpeting, and an automobile parked out front, all bought on "hire purchase," as the British call the installment plan. "With mortgages, with hire purchase, we can't afford a strike," says Marge Reid, whose husband has been a miner for 25 years. "Nobody wants to harm the country either, but if we have to do this to raise our standard of living, then we will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: The Miners' Tough Choice | 2/11/1974 | See Source »

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