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...picket lines. The government becomes an adversary. To yield to labor demands heats up the inflation further; to resist spreads further chaos. With paychecks squeezed on one side by inflation and on the other by rising government expenses, a taxpayers' revolt of one kind or another grows likely. Observes Northwestern University Historian Robert Wiebe: "Twentieth century American society is based primarily on a system of distributing rewards. The system works because it is believed to assure a reasonably equitable allocation of resources. Inflation throws this whole contractual system into question...
Adult reaction to the unclad fad has generally been mild and good humored. "We'd like to leave it alone," said a Northwestern University official. "After all, it's springtime." At the University of Georgia, officials decided that the school's policy toward streaking would be "noninterference." In Maine, the Portland Press Herald chided streakers for wearing shoes during one of the mildest Maine winters on record. "We are not opposed to streaking provided it is correctly undertaken and executed with some grace," the paper editorialized. "If you streak, have the common decency...
...colleges and universities ACORN appealed to this week, and their stock holdings in Middle South as of January 1, 1971, are: Institution Shares Northwestern University 50,994 Cornell University 40,000 University of Michigan 39,602 Columbia University 25,508 Vanderbilt University 24,000 Emory University 20,000 Williams College 17,413 Swarthmore College 17,142 Pomona College 15,000 Tulane University 13,500 University of Illinois 11,000 Rochester Institute of Technology 10,000 University of Virginia 9,937 University of Wisconsin 8,400 Brown University 5,200 Clark University 4,000 University of Pennsylvania 1,600 Syracuse University...
Summoning the Florida legislature into special session, Governor Reubin Askew proposed returning immediately to Eastern Standard Time in most of the state (the northwestern Florida pan handle is in the Central time zone). Said Askew: "Any amount of disruption in commerce would be small indeed when compared to the life of even a single child...
...Harper's magazine column called "The Easy Chair." He lectured at Harvard and lived in a gabled house in Cambridge, Mass., that featured an enormous paneled library behind sliding doors. There, in his later years, he and his wife Avis, a student during his young teaching days at Northwestern, entertained the John Kenneth Galbraiths and Arthur Schlesingers Jr. on Sunday evenings...