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...letter setting forth the purpose of the Entertainment Fund. In the article run on February 11, the purpose of the Entertainment Fund is again distorted, this time with little excuse. In paraphrasing the text given to The Crimson, the words "House staffs" are substituted for the words "household staff," which is not a trivial change. As a minimum, I believe that The Crimson should print verbatum and in its entirety the second paragraph of the text that was given to them last Monday. Bruce Collier Assistant Dean of Harvard College
...their duties to entertain frequently students, members of the Faculty, and visiting dignitaries. This arrangement benefits both the University and the students who gain from the social and intellectual contact with Masters and their guests. Recognizing that the performance of those duties requires the maintenance of a relatively large household staff and the serving of considerable quantities of refreshments beyond normal family social needs, the University has provided this fund to be expended for these and similar purposes by each House Master as he or she shall determine...
...House staffs instead of household staffs was inadvertent...
...airline. Her decision obviously relieved the Senator, who is both a ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and a leading advocate of U.S. support for Israel. But some feminists, among them Ms. magazine's Gloria Steinem, thought that the conflict-of-interest problem in the Javits household might have been solved in another way. Said Steinem: "There was never any discussion of [Senator] Javits quitting...
...flap in the household of New York's senior Senator Jacob Javits was rapidly becoming something of a political soap opera. When the story of his wife Marion's $67,500-a-year job representing Iran's national airline for a Manhattan public relations firm first broke two weeks ago, Husband Jack, 71, gamely allowed that his wife, 51, made "independent judgments" about her professional life; he brushed aside charges that her job compromised his integrity as a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and a staunch supporter of Israel. But last week at a closed...