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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last winter the Federation leaders refined the vague consensus of the February meeting into three specific requests: a pay increase that would have meant $800 a year more to most teaching fellows; the abolition of the pay differential Harvard maintains between teaching fellows who have completed residence requirements for their doctorate and those who have not; and a redefinition of the University's criteria for measuring a teaching fellow's work load...
...dean's reply, delivered late in May, was almost totally negative. Ford and Elder rejected the pay increase outright. They offered two new proposals on the junior-senior rate differential, both of which meant that the teaching fellows might lose as much as they would gain. Only with respect to work load measurement were the deans conciliatory, and even there they would accept only adjustments within the old system...
...second inning Yastrzemski muffed a bouncing single. Another run scored. Scott was a clown, but Yastrzemski was everything. By itself the error meant little--only a run. But one had to weigh its physic consequences, its value as a clue thrown out by fortune. Working backwards from the outcome one can always discover the clues. The problem was to work forwards--isolate the clues, determine their value, chart their relationships, and conclude the outcome in advance...
...other hand, the White House usually lets the press know that these meetings occur, that the confrontations were thoroughly amicable. This one-sided leak, a time-honored political maneuver, is meant to convince Americans with intellectual pretensions that any President who spends so much time soft-soaping their brethren can't be that misguided after...
Second, and more important, the Dooling case was explicitly concerned with the distribution of power between a mayor and city council. When the judges spoke of subjects "outside" the "field of authorized action" of the city council, they meant issues reserved for the mayor's attention...