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Standing on one side of the controversy are the so-called "Reds," who espouse Chairman Mao Tse-tung's idea of continual revolution and selfless commitment to "serve the people," John K. Fairbank '29, Higginson Professor of History, said yesterday. Mao believes the revolution is betrayed by bureaucrats who obtain privileges and turn elitist, Fairbank added...
...founder of this University. That statue was placed there by workers. The buildings of Harvard were constructed, the trees were chopped down, the land was ploughed up and foundations were put in by workers. Workers were here long before the vast bureaucracy of managers and administrators. When will we obtain the right to be heard, to be consulted on issues that affect our lives? When will we take our rightful place as members of the Harvard community...
...truck-driver jobs with Bowman Transportation Inc. in Atlanta, which until 1970 openly followed a policy of hiring whites only. The majority opinion, written by Justice William J. Brennan, asserted that if the court merely awarded a job to an applicant who was initially discriminated against, he "will never obtain his rightful place in the hierarchy of seniority." In a dissenting opinion, Chief Justice Warren Burger questioned the wisdom of courts granting seniority to some workers at the expense of others. Wrote Burger: "I cannot join in judicial approval of 'robbing Peter to pay Paul...
Peter Clifton '49, director of the Harvard College Fund, is predicting that he expects to obtain $5.25 million compared to $4.85 million for last year. In this years drive there has been a 5 per cent increase in the number of donors...
Publishing economics will now force a sharp reduction in our circulation in Canada, although readers there will still be able to obtain the U.S. edition of the magazine. Advertisers-in Canada and elsewhere-will also continue to be able to reach Canadian readers through TIME. Although our forced decision to close TIME Canada is painful for us, the reasons why also trouble many Canadians who are concerned about press freedom. Said an editorial in the Ottawa Citizen last week: "Much more than TIME Canada's existence has been at stake. More important is the principle that the government...