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...Association of Letter Carriers were told to resign or retire from federal employment by Feb. 26 or face charges under the 1939 Hatch Act, which bars federal employees from "partisan political advocacy." The advisory was issued by the Office of the Special Counsel, the enforcement arm of the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board...
...football fails this test of non-ratings-based "merit." The players might have "Veritas" emblazoned on their spunfenes but Harvard Football hardly more more educational than the kind practiced by schools with easier admissions criteria. And there are plenty of these higher powered games duly broadcast their cheir Saturday by the big three networks. From the football fan's point of view, the Oha States and ECIA As of the world play football better than the Harvards and Yales. That's not a mark against anyone, that's just the way it is With all due respect to Joe Restic...
There's almost no audience demand for Ivy football, it has no exceptional educational merit, and there's a superabundance of football of all kinds on the commercial stations. Why do the public broadcasters seem so interested in having it? No station spokesman would give an answer beyond the need for PBS to have a "sports presence," or the way Ivy football players brought "perspective" back to winning and losing (tell that to the Crimson squad downed 30-27 by the Yalies last November). Producer Harney in fact, could "make no case for why we do these things. WNET...
...Potomac potboiler: the role of Hughes Tool Co. in building the Glomar Explorer, the secret submarine-recovery vessel; Hughes' plans to run Nevada Governor Paul Laxalt for President; Robert Maheu's part in a half-baked CIA plot to poison Fidel Castro. But the book's chief merit is its direct access to the mind of a callous and frightened man. His fears about antitrust suits, Las Vegas competition and staff loyalty pale before his phobias. Dreading germs, he dictated a "Procedures Manual" for handling anything he was to touch: "Wash four distinct and separate times, using lots of lather...
Dominguez, Harvard's leading expert in Latin American politics, was accused of harassing a junior faculty member in the Government Department. After finding merit in the assistant professor's formal grievance, Rosovsky reportedly removed Dominguez from his position as chairman of an interdisciplinary committee on Latin American studies...