Word: membership
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...James Calvert, who circled under the North Pole's icecap aboard the nuclear submarine Skate. But last week the 76-year-old club snubbed a sailor who traveled around the world alone in a 53-ft. sloop because the mariner was ineligible to join the club, which restricts membership to "men of good stature...
...aboard the Express Crusader, accompanied by her kitten Boris and a stack of Rod Stewart tape recordings. Upon hearing about her feat, Explorer Tristan Jones, who has circumnavigated the globe three times, urged club officials to wire congratulations to James. When they refused, he huffily withdrew his application for membership and denounced the members as "bloody old fogies who've gone around the world once in a steamer...
Despite the increase in overt activity, membership in extreme rightist organizations, including those that are neo-Nazi and illegal, is well below the postwar 1959 high of 56,200. The extreme rightist National Democratic Party has only 9,000 adherents. Like the West German Communist Party, the N.P.D. is a legal political organization and a singularly ineffective one: in the 1976 general election, the party received only 122,000 votes out of 37.8 million cast...
Another avenue for Harvard lobbying lies with groups such as the American Association of Universities (AAU) and the National Education Council (NEC). Fifty high-powered research universities compose the membership of the AAU, and Cottington says whenever possible, Harvard tries to work through such a group, adding "It's more effective to have 50 universities backing a position than...
...School and one at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The Faculty biohazards committee is comprised of one undergraduate, one graduate student, a postdoctoral fellow, a lab employee, a faculty scientist, and a community member, with Koehler as an ex-officio member. With this varied membership, Koehler says, the committee can be objective in its evaluations and enforcement of NIH regulations. However, skeptics could point to the case last year of Dr. Charles A. Thomas, then a Harvard researcher, who was accused of conducting experiments above the containment level of his lab. The alleged violation was not reported until...