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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...remarkable story begins ten years ago, when Richmond was a bit shorter and less well-known...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: Following an Open-Minded Road to Tennis Success | 4/13/1979 | See Source »

Carr squired his team to the seaside New Seabury Country Club in Cape Cod, a 7200-yard-long layout of rollicking fairways that looked like a replica of an enchanted Watteau watercolor. The linksters found the landscape somewhat less than sublime as only one player in the 28-man field could break...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Golfers Sweep in Opener at Tough New Seabury | 4/13/1979 | See Source »

...having an effect on Congress, the administration, and the general public. Political advertising, political campaign contributions, and lobbying expenditures from the business sector--especially from the largest corporations--are growing at an exponential rate. In 1978, business political action committees raised over $50 million, a fivefold increase from their less than $10 million campaign chest...

Author: By Andrew P. Buchsbaum, | Title: Minding Everybody's Business | 4/12/1979 | See Source »

GALBRAITH is quick to say that migration is not the only answer; any attack on poverty must be fought on several fronts. But he is very vague about ways to escape to the industrial sectors of a nation. He is convinced that urban poverty is less intractable than rural poverty although he does not quite say why. His best points about industrialization reduce to the platitudes that developed countries of all political leanings have given each other the wrong advice about ways to attract industry, and that more research is needed to determine the correct advice...

Author: By Amy B. Mcintosh, | Title: The Starving and the Poor | 4/11/1979 | See Source »

...Harvard in 1971, a year before he would normally have been required to retire. With Pusey's retirement and his replacement by Derek C. Bok, former dean of the Law School, the University began to build a new governing structure--a more bureaucratized system, one of dispersed power, with less emphasis on the "one-man show" that Pusey had run for more than a decade and a half. But despite the change in administration and the graduation of ten successive classes from the College, the memory of the strike has lingered among Harvard Faculty. And more than most undergraduates...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: The Rites of Spring | 4/10/1979 | See Source »

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