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...first month in the Dean's office listening to complaints and trying to forge a practicable mode for his work. The Dean's office has always dealt with a combination of administrative coordination and student problems, but under Epps, a new emphasis on some controversial topics is likely to lend a very personal character...
Since the Weathermen's Chicago Days of Rage in October 1969, few have failed to take the bomb-happy organization seriously. But the timing and breadth of the latest explosions lend an even more ominous tone to the desperate threats of Bernardine Dohrn's taped message. "It is our job to blast away the myths of the total superiority of the Man," she said. In pursuing that fantasy, the bombers are more likely to destroy whatever patience remains in a nation already too tense for its own good...
...Ivory Soap's "99 and 44/100 percent pure" slogan was first floated in 1882. The big use of the old numbers game right now is a result of the hard tussle for the consumer's dollar in a period of economic slack. Numbers lend an impression of credibility and precision that helps the buyer justify his purchase. Figures also have a strong appeal for financial men, who make or approve corporate buying decisions. Thus IBM ads promise that its equipment will cut reproduction costs...
However, food services officials were non-committal when asked to comment on Harvard's policy. Benjamin Walcott, assistant purchasing agent, stated: "I personally would lend a sympathetic ear to a petition expressing the desires of the majority of the students, but Mr. Hurlburt would have to make the final policy decision." Charles G. Hurlburt, Director of the Food Services, refused to comment on the subject...
...difficult to imagine such a commercial venture being mounted anywhere else in the world. Twentieth Century-Fox took the nation's most ignominious military disaster since the burning of the White House in 1814, hired the man who planned it all to lend his expertise, and even enlisted the U.S. Defense Department's help in filming it. Then, to launch their $25 million epic, Tora! Torn! Tora!, a recapitulation of Pearl Harbor (see CINEMA), the producers held a premiere last week in Washington. Among the guests of honor: Technical Adviser Minoru Genda, the retired Japanese general who planned...