Word: membership
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Thomas P. Perkins Jr. '76, a black resident of New Orleans, said Tuesday he gained admission to the club July 10 when he showed his Harvard Club of Boston credentials. Shortly afterwards, in what Perkins said was a direct violation of the reciprocal membership agreement between the two clubs, a club official told him he would have to leave because the NOAC by-laws restrict its membership to "Caucasians...
...judge also cited in his decision what he called "an arguable constitutional basis" for a private club's right to discriminate in its membership and the limited usefulness of injunctive relief since Perkins would be leaving New Orleans to return to Harvard at the start of the school year...
John P. Nelson Jr., Perkins's attorney, Tuesday said the judge's argument concerning membership restrictions on the basis of subjective criteria apart from race is "a lot of crap." He said "there never have been whites denied membership...
...regional director Robert Fuchs. If the board favors Harvard, and Powers professes absolute confidence that it will, the union question for the Medical Area will have been effectively laid to rest. But if District 65's petition is upheld after the resolution of a few minor issues related to membership in the bargaining unit, Powers and Harvard will have the touchy problem of an NLRB administered union election--with all its attendant difficulties--on their hands, possibly before the end of the academic year...
...Communist officers in the army and air force, Gonçalves−who the previous week had lost his post as Premier−gave up his appointment as chief of the general staff of the armed forces. In addition, he and three radical colleagues were dropped from membership in a new, powerful, 19-man Revolutionary Council...