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...stern effort to halt violence that has been causing a death a day in Jamaica, Manley's government took the extreme step of declaring a state of emergency. This move gives the Jamaican Security Force broad and tough powers to maintain law and order. Said the Prime Minister: "We have witnessed a type and scale of violence unique in our history, terrorist activities previously unknown to us which have caused fear and concern to every decent Jamaican citizen." Security forces, he insisted, had found evidence that terrorism was to be deliberately stepped up this week...
Secretaries find single-element typewriters faster, and the machines have fewer moving parts to maintain. From IBM's point of view, of course, their real attraction is profitability. Less labor is involved in the manufacture of the Selectric, yet it sells for a premium price -$630-$840. All of IBM's new rivals sell in the $650-$700 range. Now, though the company denies it, IBM appears to be withdrawing gradually from the ordinary electric typewriter market. It is a move that in the long run may help spell the end of the familiar, jammable typewriter. Another innovation...
...students accused of "disorderly conduct" were given letters of eviction this winter from their House master with what one of the six termed "outright refusal to present evidence." The letter of expulsion, from Rulan C. Pian, master of South House, demanded that the students move out in order "to maintain Eliot Hall as a liveable place." All the students eventually found rooms for the semester, but only one was admitted back into South House...
Whitlock, now dean of the College, said yesterday his appointment as Dudley House master will allow him to maintain ties with students despite his new administrative position, in which he will work primarily with University staff...
...addition, global corporations are able to prevent the government from acquiring sufficient information about their operations to regulate them effectively, even if this were politically possible. If this analysis is substantially correct, it means that the U.S. government will find it increasingly difficult to maintain the economic growth and high employment rates that have been responsible for social "stability" since the New Deal...