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Daimler and Sapphires. As Walter tells it, Harris was a dancing instructor who, in 1963, wanted to be just a gigolo and began ingratiating himself into the comfortable Bucks County life of Pearl Buck. He fawned, she loved it; together they wrote a mawkish book (For Spacious Skies) about finding one another. A year later, she made him president of the new foundation. He left his dance-studio job and moved into (rent free) the organization's elegant town house in Philadelphia's Delancey Place. Soon, writes Walter, Harris had collected "several thousand dollars worth" of suits, jewelry...
With the German economy still surging, officers and men feel underpaid. A full colonel earns about as much as a ski instructor; a master sergeant's pay about equals that of a cab driver. Moreover, a uniform provides no compensating psychic income to its wearer today. Determined not to repeat the mistakes of previous regimes that allowed the German army to become a state within the state, Bonn may have downgraded the postwar armed forces too far-the defense share of the federal budget has dropped from 28% in 1965 to 22.6% this year. Few soldiers wear their uniforms...
Harvard's first experiment in Afro American studies--Soc Sci 5, a general education course on "the Afro American Experience" -- met strong criticism from black students in the course and from other Afro members. After one black freshman had argued with the course's instructor, Frank Freidel, during a lecture, Afro said it would prepare a formal critique of the course, including alternate reading lists and lecture suggestions. Freidel said that the course had been put together on short notice and was still in a flexible stage...
November 12: The faculty unanimously accepted the Dunlop Report's section on re-arranging Faculty approved--calling for elimination of the "Instructor" post and general pay raises--had earlier been endorsed...
Jack Stauder, instructor in Social Relations, said that increasing restrictions placed on the course by the Social Relations department and by the Committee on Educational Policy have "made it impossible to teach a satisfactory course...