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...Chou occupied Lin's No. 2 position. But No. 3 turned out to be none other than Mao's wife Chiang Ching. She was one of the reddest of the Red Guard leaders during the Cultural Revolution, and her rise may spell new power for the small nucleus of relatively youthful leftists in the Politburo. One of its key figures is Yao Wenyuan, who is rumored to be Chiang Ching's son-in-law and is Peking's new press and propaganda chief; another is Chang Chun-chiao, party boss of Shanghai, who recently has been...
...group met at the Women's Center this past Monday to organize Women's Studies courses. A nucleus of about fifteen, including Tasha Tennebaun, teaching fellow in Latin American history, Ruth Hubbard, lecturer on biology, and Janet Fjellman, lecturer on social anthropology, suggested that those interested in the courses should call the People's Switchboard at 4953454. The format may be oriented toward a group experience or may take a more traditional and scholarly approach. Among the topics considered were the biology of sex differences, a history of the women's movement, lesbianism, an anthropological study of women in various...
...success of the '70-71 squad rested on the sholders of a nucleus of eight seniors. As freshman they had led the Yardlings to an undefeated record, but their sophomore and junior records were disappointing. As juniors, they were only 5-10-1, but most of those losses came on three or four point margins...
Harvard will be hard pressed to improve on its second place finish in the Ivy League. Princeton, defending champion, lost most of its squad through graduation, but the Tigers had a good freshman nucleus. Penn has been recruiting heavily and should have some strong freshmen, and Cornell has an undefeated freshman team that should help them regain Ivy supremacy. Even Columbia nearly upset the Crimson last fall...
Nevertheless, the nucleus of the group's members (John Ransom, Donald Davidson, "Red" Warren, and Tate) not only improved on their initial, poetic promise, but by 1930 had sketched a credo for the South, with the anthology I'll Take My Stand, urging agrarianism over industrialism and warning the South against becoming a replica of the North. "The culture of the soil," wrote Ransom, "is the best and most sensitive of vocations...