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...permitted to leave Jordan. Flamini could not get out, and Scott could not get back in. "Our little game of hopscotch didn't work," Scott lamented in Beirut. "We haven't heard from Roland since." Presumably, Flamini was trapped with other newsmen at Amman's besieged Inter-Continental Hotel...
...increase of Federal involvement in University life, and dozens of high-powered, think-tankish research centers began springing up at Harvard and across the nation, funded by the government and by private foundations. These centers were never very far removed from academic life; they bridged departmental structures with their inter-disciplinary, relevance-oriented outlook, and served as research-money conduits for scores of interested professors...
Over the weekend, Chavez won a contract with the biggest grower in the valley, Inter-Harvest Inc., which is connected with the giant United Fruit. Worried that a boycott of United Fruit bananas might replace the celebrated grape boycott, Inter-Harvest agreed to wages well above the Teamsters demands and gave field hands a voice in the use of pesticides and union jurisdiction over foremen. While U.F.W.O.C. leaders called the contract "a shot in the arm," the Inter-Harvest contract angered the remaining growers, some of whom were letting acres of vegetables rot. Yet the Salinas Valley vegetable growers lost...
Though half blind and half deaf, Argentine Author Jorge Luis Borges, 71, is still pouring out prose and poetry while lecturing and serving as head of Argentina's National Library. Last week, as he became the first winner of the new $25,000 Inter-American Literature Prize, Borges was characteristically modest, though candid: "I am not worthy of this award, but I will, of course, accept it nonetheless." As for the Nobel Prize that it is rumored he will get, he said wryly: "I would accept it greedily -like a Viking...
Weil-Heeled Liberals. There are several means of funding the movement. A showing of Cool Hand Luke on the Berkeley campus netted $500 for the Inter-Strike Co-Ordinating Committee. Boston's Progressive Labor Party regularly holds bake sales and dances, this month drew 200 sympathizers to a rock concert at M.I.T. Biggest contributions, both of money and equipment, come from well-heeled liberals who support the radicals' drive for peace if not their revolutionary tactics and theories. The big earners among professional radicals, like Hoffman and Rubin, plow most of their profits back into the movement. Then...