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...SPRING OF 1971, the Faculty changed the method of selecting student members for the CRR in the hope of finding students to serve on it. But twice that spring in University-wide referenda, students voted to boycott the CRR, temporarily foiling the Faculty's attempt to lend legitimacy to the CRR through student participation. In 1973, there was an attempt to nominate students for the CRR from Leverett House, but that failed, leaving the boycott intact...
UNION REPRESENTATION elections have been held for just over 35,000 farmworkers in California under a new state law which went into effect August 28. The results lend strong support to the contention that the purpose of Cesar Chavez's decade-long boycotts was to force farmworkers into the UFW who didn't want to join...
...municipalities, forcing them to cut services and spending and hike taxes, and drastically harm the economy. A New York bankruptcy would also wipe out much of the value of $2 billion worth of city securities held by banks round the country. Though the Federal Reserve has pledged to lend the banks enough money to keep them from closing, they might have to curtail their lending to business. Much of the remaining $11.5 billion in city securities is held by individuals, who would suffer serious losses of principal and interest and thus have their buying power reduced...
...London, the Wilson government, which has been counting on an American-led world recovery to help get Britain moving again, was profoundly distressed. If New York defaults, said a high Whitehall official, "it's bound to make American banks less willing to lend, and public authorities less willing to spend." The London Times called Ford's policy "an act of monumental folly." Editorialized the Times: "It is no exaggeration to say that for the financial system of the United States, for the reputation of that country, and for the rest of the non-Communist industrial world, it could...
Almost from the moment the curtain goes up, one feels that one is browsing in a library, which, in the theater, is the dramatic equivalent of dozing off. To begin with, the story does not lend itself to a willing suspension of disbelief. The setting is a Polish ghetto town about a century ago. Yentl (Tovah Feldshuh) is an extremely bright girl who relishes reading and discussing the Talmud and the Torah with her learned father. It is strictly taboo for a Jewish woman to be studying these sacred texts. Yentl is precocious and prone to dispute with her elders...