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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Congress will begin discussing legislation this month which may change all that. Rep. Barry Gold water Jr. (R-Calif.) and Rep. Edward Koch(D-N.Y.) are filing bills to revise the Buckley Amendment, part of a 1974 law that guarantees students access to their educational records...
Patricia M. Bonneau Deming, N...
...Cincinnati Enquirer had a problem. Circulation was slipping, down about 5% in three years. So in 1975 the Enquirer hired Frank N. Magid Associates, a Marion, Iowa, consulting firm, to find a solution. On Magid's advice, the paper added more local news, more sports coverage, more consumer reporting and its first restaurant reviews. Results are not all in yet, but during the past year alone circulation climbed...
...attracted national media coverage--lay in the composition of the deciding body, a nine-member citizen's review panel, none of whom were scientists. Cambridge Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci says the Council and the review committee heard presentations by Harvard scientists George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology emeritus, Richard N. Goldstein, assistant professor of Microbiology, and Ruth Hubbard, professor of Biology. They warned Cambridge citizens of the dangers involved in the research while Francis M. Pipkin, associate dean of the Faculty and chairman of the University's Committee on Research Policies, downplayed the potential dangers. "We didn't know...
...Congressmen found Clarke's ruminations on space travel to be far-fetched but not unbelievable. In the discussion that followed, Clarke fielded questions about the potential cost overrun on space colonization and traded reminiscences of the cartoon strip Buck Rogers with Rep. Thomas N. Downing (D-Va.). The essay provides an amusing, edifying and somewhat poignant look at how space policy...