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...have moved to the Core Curriculum, but "Principles of Economics" is once again the largest course this semester, with more than 1000 students enrolled...
Social Analysis 10 (formerly Economics 10) has 1053 students, according to preliminary enrollment figures based on the study cards turned in last week. The next largest courses are Natural Sciences 110, "Automatic Computing" with 717 students and Astronomy 8, "Cosmic Evolution", with 481, Douglass S. Gardner '57, associate registrar of the Faculty said yesterday...
GRAHAM K. ALLISON JR. '62, dean of the Kennedy School, had good reason to be angry last Monday night. Secretary of Defense Harold Brown's soporific advertisement for SALT II--beamed live and in color to the largest crowd in the K-School Forum's history--had suddenly gone haywire. An elaborate farce had turned into melodrama. While 20 of their comrades picketed outside, two protesters from the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) had managed to smuggle themselves into the building, and one began screaming at Brown ten minutes into his speech. All those plans, all those arrangement... screwed...
...street corner, the Boston Globe delivery truck pulls up carrying the early morning edition of the city's largest paper. "City to Greet Pope Today," the front page blares. But for the Globe there is even more important news. The price of the paper has gone up 20 per cent overnight. The first subway crowd is clamoring for the papers, mostly because they realize that the hillside they will sit on for the next twelve hours is cold...
...does it with good humor, laughing at the deluge. He does it with courage, calling on strife-torn Boston to forsake racial violence. He does it with simple humility--"the Pope is your friend," he says to the largest cheers of the day. But most of all he wins Boston Common with his larger-than-Catholic personality. People don't just honor or respect him, they fall in love, in part because that is what he wants...