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Last week the odd couple finally agreed to agree-maybe. Japan will lend $1.05 billion to the Soviet Union so that work can begin on three major projects: mining coal in southern Yakutia, prospecting for natural gas in northern Yakutia, and harvesting timber in the Soviet Far East. The Russians will repay the loan in hard currency at 6.375% interest over the next 16 years. Four-fifths of the loan must be used by the Soviets to purchase Japanese mining and lumbering equipment. Once the projects get rolling, the Soviet Union will supply Japan with coal at prevailing world market...
...members of the scientific and academic community, we feel a special responsibility because the racist writings of some of our colleagues are used to lend support to the more blatant racists on the School committee. None of these theories can cite a single proven fact for their support, yet they are proclaimed in scientific journals and the popular press alike as important new discoveries...
Radcliffe, then seventeen years old, merited two chapters, one written by Arthur Gilman, "Regent of the College." Even then, Martha Trimble Bennett, (probably a student) admitted, "Life at Radcliffe does not lend itself easily to description." The 'Cliffe seemed to be a dull place-- "there are no picturesque details which can be seized upon," Bennett reported. "A large number of the students live at home," so there was "none of the gay dormitory life which is so distinctive a feature at most women's colleges." An atmosphere of "thought and study invests Radcliffe," Bennett wrote, but "no girl is proud...
...usual explanation is that audiences won't support the old sort of programming any more. Box-office failures over the past couple of years seem to lend some support to this theory. It's hard to show Bresson, or even Godard, these days, according to St. George (who occasionally sneaks a good film that he thinks won't sell onto a double bill at the Brattle). But there's been a change in the attitude of the schedulers, too. Larry Jackson, manager of the Orson Welles, thinks the old schedules at the Welles were "academic," and over the last three...
...Corporation maintains its consensus. According to Burr, "If you [the president] don't like the way a guy is doing things, you ask him to quit and he quits--or else he is powerless." Disagreement is tantamount to resignation, although "most of the issues lend themselves to some sort of middle level of decision," Calkins says...