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...holds a doctorate in public administration and is one of eight women members in Egypt's 360-seat Parliament. An active feminist, she held her own in a remarkable debate last year with Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi, who had come to Cairo to explore the possibilities of a merger between Egypt and Libya. Takla, who is married to Police General and Criminologist Karim Darwish, rebutted Gaddafi's chauvinistic brand of Islamic fundamentalism by arguing that it reduced women to a secondary role. When Gaddafi protested that women were weak, Takla retorted that "only in weak societies are women...
Barbara Voss, vice president of AHA, said yesterday the meeting will attempt to inform alumni of the "best educational solutions open to men and women in the college." Merger will not be the main topic of discussion, though it will come up in specific contexts, Voss said...
...This is not a meeting about merger. Merger is a financial and administrative arrangement," Voss said. "We will be discussing educational solutions. If you can decide educational needs, then you can decide financial and administrative needs," she said...
...KING' COLLINS and his friends became public figures in Cambridge on March 4, 1969--a week after Radcliffe proposed merger with Harvard, a month before the Strike began, the same day the Faculty voted not to let students on the Fainsod Committee studying university governance. Collins was a former graduate student in social sciences from Columbia University's Teachers College who had helped occupy Columbia's Fayerwether Hall in 1968, and he started his Harvard career by attending a meeting of Social Relations 153, where Alex Inkeles, then associate professor of Sociology, was lecturing on juvenile delinquency. Collins told...
McDonnell Douglas, formed by a 1967 merger, has consistently been one of the most profitable firms in the aerospace industry. While most competitors were just beginning to recover from a three-year-old slump, McDonnell Douglas profits last year rose 16% to $129.5 million, on sales of $3 billion. Unlike Lockheed and Grumman, the firm has avoided massive cost overruns on its Government contracts, through good luck and tight financial controls. Unlike Boeing, which has been concentrating its efforts on commercial airliners at a time when the airlines have too many seats and not enough passengers, McDonnell Douglas keeps about...