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...CIVIL ENGINEER: "Americans came like firemen to extinguish the fire, but they haven't done the job, and now they are going home. It's unbelievable. Fine, we will put out the fire ourselves, but you have taken the water, the pump and the ladder with you. Once we knew how to put out these fires with bucket brigades, but now we are used to your technology, and you are taking it away. Many people believe things were better in 1961 than they are today. There were no motorcycles then, few radios. Now the people are making more...
...however, that Harvard is interested in making such changes. The 4-to-1 ratio here is hardly an isolated inequity: women are treated as second class at every level of the University. Women hold few major teaching appointments, including only two full professorships; they are clustered around the off-ladder positions which seldom lead to professional advancement. The Department of Health, Education and Welfare this year required Harvard to submit a plan to correct discrimination in its employment practices. And when students protested the pay differential between male and female cooks in Radcliffe kitchens, a Radcliffe official explained, "But there...
...Masterson and Lindner should be ready for first doubles next year," Barnaby said, "and they'll be near the top of the singles ladder as well...
...women on their staffs. Every five years, beginning next year, department chairmen shall be required to report to the Permanent Committee through the Dean's office the reasons why each female research associate or fellow and each female lecturer, permanent and non-permanent, in that department holds an off-ladder rather than an on-ladder appointment...
...deeply entrenched in shellproof bunkers on the 95-mile Bar-Lev Line. Across the 200 yards of canal, the two sides keep constant watch on each other. The Israelis have built observation towers above the bunkers. The Egyptians occasionally drive a fire truck up to the canal, extend the ladder and clamber up to take a look at the Israeli side...