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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...number of students assigned to it during the housing lottery. Spence may change this figure slightly when final data on the number of students who take leaves of absence become available. But regardless of the number she eventually chooses, in effect the floor or House populations will provide a limit on the number of people who can leave the Quad...

Author: By Roger M. Klein, | Title: A House of Your Choice | 9/28/1977 | See Source »

...from falling to the Communists, and of the modern Defense Department and Central Intelligence Agency. He also advised John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson on foreign policy, but refused to join the Cabinet until 1968, when he reluctantly became Secretary of Defense. In that job, he helped persuade Johnson to limit bombing raids on North Viet Nam and begin negotiating with Hanoi's representatives in Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Democrats' Mr. Fixit | 9/26/1977 | See Source »

...crisis. Leary said last week he feels the school committee originally gave him the position because they thought he was inexperienced enough to be pliable, and they never told him why they fired him. Observers generally agree his commitment to carrying out court-ordered busing and his attempts to limit patronage led to his dismissal. His successor is Marion Fahey, who is currently earning her doctorate from a correspondence school in Florida. Her mistakes are legion. When schools opened this month thousands of students did not have rides because the school department mismanaged the bus arrangements. According to the department...

Author: By Mike Kendall, | Title: An Abandoned Ship | 9/24/1977 | See Source »

...Soviets will decide they have the necessary superiority to attack the U.S. Instead the crucial question, he says, is where they might attack. And he is convincing in his explanation that it is not our cities, but our weapons, that would be their first target--in an attempt to limit the damage the aggressor would incur in a retaliatory strike...

Author: By Jon Alter, | Title: Avoiding Armageddon | 9/22/1977 | See Source »

Members of the planning board said last night they did not favor down-zoning the property to a residential B classification because the move would not severely limit Harvard's building space, nor meet the community's goals to halt construction of the athletic facility...

Author: By Laurie Hays, | Title: City Planning Board Will Recommend Down-Zoning of Observatory Hill | 9/21/1977 | See Source »

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