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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Financial relations between the federal government and private universities operate on the age-old "buddy system." Down the road at M.I.T. where bespectacled scientists sit in cavernous laboratories and dream up new missile and radar systems, the Defense Department, not surprisingly, is in charge. Out in the Midwest, where soft-spoken graduate students plant hybrid crops and try to improve harvest yields, big brother is the Department of Agriculture. And here at Harvard, where the lion's share of federal funds is funnelled into medical research, people report to the Department of Health, Education and Welfare...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Breaking Down the Buddy System | 9/14/1979 | See Source »

There is an old saying that if you don't like New England weather, wait a week. The same can be said of Ivy League football standings. Since 1970 one game or less has separated the top two teams at the wire. Every season in recent memory the champion has been determined in the final weekend and the title holder has rarely been the preseason favorite...

Author: By David A. Wilson, | Title: Brown Has Size and Experience To Capture Ivy Football Title; Dartmouth, Yale Also Strong | 9/14/1979 | See Source »

...just my guess, but I would say that under this bill there will be more permits denied than granted," James Remeika '68, assistant director of the Rent Control Board said last week. "It's certainly not going to be easy. if someone is 80 years old and has lived in an apartment for 45 years, and in Cambridge all his life, then there is a pretty good chance the board will find it to be a hardship case and not allow the conversion," Remeika added...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Condo: It's a Fighting Word | 9/14/1979 | See Source »

WASHINGTON--The House of Representatives yesterday rejected an amendment requiring 18-year-old men to register for the military draft...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Rejects Draft Proposal | 9/13/1979 | See Source »

...amendment, introduced by Rep. G.V. Montgomery (D-Miss.), would have required all 18-year-old men to register beginning on January...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Rejects Draft Proposal | 9/13/1979 | See Source »

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