Word: northeasters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Trilling, called "Daughters of the Middle Class." Although the coincidence is probably accidental, Trilling's title underlines Harper's probable reasons for giving so much space to an institution whose internal evolution cannot concern a particularly large audience: Harper's is geared to the educated middle class of the Northeast, and its readers include enough alumni to make such articles profitable...
...copper mines is vital for his financially shaky country. Another is that any sign of yielding could invite similar demands from other regions of Zaïre, which has some 200 tribes. A corrupt dictator, Mobutu is unpopular-even hated-in much of the country. In the wild northeast, for example, he is accused of being responsible for ordering the murder in 1961 of Patrice Lumumba, the region's popular leftist martyr. This rancor has reportedly been translated into aid and recruits for guerrillas. How his enemies will exploit Mobutu's troubles remains to be seen-when...
...Dinghy Cup regatta, the varsity sailors will have their tillers full trying to keep abreast of the always-tough armadas from Tufts, Yale and the University of Rhode Island in the race for a season-end berth in the North American championships. 'It's a rough year in the Northeast," Horn notes, and with only three of the top teams qualifying for the year-end shindig the team will have to keep its sails trim...
...next two years, then drop them back to 20% for an additional two years. The commission further would cut the quota on sugar, now 7 million tons, to a maximum of 4.4 million tons a year. Labor leaders, businessmen and politicians from regions hurt by imports -the Northeast in the case of shoes, the South for sugar, the East and West Coast for TV sets-have formed an alliance to press for these ideas. Last week the shoe industry sent Carter a petition signed by 29 Governors supporting the ITC recommendation; 133 Congressmen signed a similar letter...
Mary Anne Schwalbe '55, director of admissions, believes that Harvard's small number of disabled students results from the College's location in the northeast as well as the relative inaccessibility of its campus. "Most of the handicapped students we've talked with prefer areas where the winter isn't as hard," but, she adds, Harvard's location benefits those who do attend, because of the high-quality medical facilities in the area...