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Novelties. Imagine a university director who is a political organizer from a textile mill; students who are mostly army privates or the children of factory workers; an American-trained academic with a world reputation in theoretical genetics turning all his energies to increasing the yield of wheat; physicists making transistors for portable radios...
...operated by the university, the factories produce equipment ranging from quartz-tungsten lamps to logic circuits for third-generation computers. The university also plans a petrochemical plant. "The purpose of these factories is to serve as a base for scientific experiments," explains Tang Chin-wen, 39, the textile-mill technician whose ardent agitprop work won him the leadership of the university. "It is to change the situation that prevailed before the Cultural Revolution, when practical knowledge was divorced from theoretical knowledge...
...five last days of blitz campaigning. In a campaign devoid of any single burning issue, he abandoned his customary pitch as a "national" candidate and unabashedly sought support on the basis of "regionalism." Alluding to the New England "sense of community," he told a gathering in the paper-mill town of Berlin: "If I can't get help from my friends close to home, I don't know where to expect...
...from their tax kronor. A typical example is Paul Lundmark, who is married and the father of three children, ages 4 to 10. He lives in Orebro, a city of 275,000. Lundmark earns an average blue-collar salary of $6,500 a year by working in a paper mill. He pays more than one-third of this, $2,300, in direct local and national income taxes...
...Eliot House which featured Herrnstein as the speaker. Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, acting in his "capacity as a House Master and a University official," ordered Helfand to leave Eliot House. (Steiner had previously warned Helfand about staying away from Harvard on February 24, during the mill-in at University Hall.) Helfand ignored the order, and remained at the dinner...