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...Alcoholics Anonymous, the oldest, the biggest (650,000 to 750,000 members) and still the most successful organization by far for helping alcoholics. "Until the researcher is able to demonstrate some better practical techniques, the A.A. approach continues to merit our admiration and endorsement," says Gottheil. And, write Sociologists Harrison Trice and Paul Roman: "Despite lay leadership, A.A. has apparently achieved a success rate that surpasses those of professional therapies...
...first recipients of the Bob Harrison Memorial Basketball Trophy were Crimson writers Bob Garrett and Jeff Flanders. They won the title for their colorful, if bizarre, reporting of Harvard basketball...
Sanders introduced some new laurels, too. He gave the "Unsung Hero Award," for the player whose efforts earned least attention during the season, to sophomore forward Bill Carey. Sanders awarded a special plaque to ex-freshman coach John Harvey for his help in easing the transition from the Bob Harrison regime to that of newcomers Sanders, Paul Lyons and Mike Jarvis...
...scholarly dissent and literate insights. Though its readership is solid (circ. 100,000) as well as influential, NR faces mounting postal and publishing costs. Recently the weekly has run at a small profit, which is unusual for opinion journals. But red ink is always a threat, and Harrison, 58, figured that it was time for a younger angel with a muscular bankroll...
...Harrison is to stay on as editor for at least three years, but Peretz does not plan to be an absentee owner. He thinks that NR must toughen its liberalism with more aggressive, sharply argued opinions on issues now being exploited by conservatives-the Nixon Administration's defense and arms-limitation policies, Henry Kissinger's detente maneuvers with Peking and Moscow. Says Peretz: "There is a conservative offensive in this country, and we don't know how to respond...