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...types of arguments have been forwarded against the CHUL proposal that all Houses go coed at whatever ratio might be necessary. One is a tactical argument that by relieving every House of the onus of an all-male existence, the CHUL plan will dissipate all pressure for increased female enrollment; the other is that a 4-1 or 5-1 or 6-1 ratio is genuinely an unsatisfactory living arrangement for women...
...problem in Cambridge is that conservatives in City Hall, in the City Council, and in various other centers of power, see it as a burden rather than an advantage to tack the bill for additional services onto the already strained city budget. To avoid the onus of deleting established and popular services when federal CDA money dries up in 1974, these fiscal conservatives have chosen to clamp down now, by effectively shutting off old programs and enlarging the veto power to prevent new ones...
...could counter such an impression by using part of the savings from a nuclear cutback to increase the efficiency of its conventional forces. In fact, a sensible adjustment of the U.S. nuclear arsenal might help restore faith abroad in the wisdom of American actions while putting the onus on the Soviets to scale down their own nuclear storehouse...
...Watchdog Onus. In some larger cities, blacks now have the power to turn an election their way by voting as a bloc, much as have labor unions, ethnic groups and businessmen. No one knows that better than Atlanta Mayor Sam Massell, who was elected with more than 90% of the black vote last fall-fully half of his overall total. Much of the rest of his support came from labor unions, attracted by the promises of economic progress held out by the liberal Massell. In New Orleans last April, Mayor Moon Landrieu was elected on a similar black-labor-liberal...
Downstairs was no better. The slaphappy laughter and pink fuzzy slippers couldn't hide the real sorrow of the tiny group of girls huddled around their milk and cookies. Saturday night at Harvard is really very little different from any other night. It does not carry the onus of "date night." But at Radcliffe on Saturday night the dorm is depopulated and only a few remain. It may not be, in fact, terribly sad, but it sure seems that...