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...Jersey-while building a skeletal national organization from such bones as Cesar Chavez's far-flung boycott network and activist church groups. Brown is considering a nationwide tour, the better to disseminate his "lower our expectations" dicta, woo uncommitted delegates and influence the polls during the pregnant preconvention lull...
Wall Street analysts generally believe Xerox is not in a slump but a lull caused by the natural constraints of being an industry leader and thus the target everybody shoots at. They expect the company's profits to be flat this year but to pick up in 1977 as the 9200 and other new products begin making a real contribution to earnings. In any case, Xerox is still looking ahead. Having done so much to create the mountain of paper that businessmen deal with daily, Xerox is now working toward helping them eliminate it, or so officials privately admit...
...dislike the thought of seeming to play the part of lobbyists. But it is wrong to conceive of the effort in such narrow terms." In one sense the idea is sound: any Harvard student knows that a pack of Harvard professors dispatched to lecture in Washington could easily lull to sleep whole departments of formerly alert government regulators. Yet Harvard might benefit more if, instead of lobbying in the capital to keep governmental regulations out of Harvard, Bok lobbied here in Cambridge to persuade Harvard to accept and even welcome those rules that, like affirmative action, promise improve the University
Communist troops were at Saigon's gate last April and shells were exploding everywhere, but a small band of doctors continued to treat patients at battered Gia Dinh Hospital. During a recent lull in Lebanon's civil war, a medical team entered Beirut and set up an emergency clinic in an isolated Moslem enclave which had been blockaded for nine months. In Guatemala last February, the ground was still trembling when a special task force of doctors arrived to care for victims of that country's disastrous earthquake...
...Soviets view détente-as permanent peaceful coexistence? As a way of maintaining East-West balance? As a tactic to lull the West into relaxing its vigilance? Foreign-policy experts have been debating this issue since the early 1970s, when Washington and Moscow proclaimed their intent to work for a reduction of world tensions. Although taking a hopeful view of the long-term trend of U.S.-Soviet relations, Henry Kissinger has recently warned Americans against expecting too much of détente, which Kremlin hard-liners have long described as a mere tactic. Last week Soviet Party Boss Leonid...