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Dates: during 1970-1979
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9to5 convinced the state Secretary for Consumer Affairs and the state Department of Insurance to hold public hearings. Citing Executive Order 74, which forbids state agencies to license discriminatory companies, they then proved that the state Insurance Commissioner was legally bound to deny licenses to firms discriminating against minorities and women...

Author: By Janny P. Scott, | Title: Raises, Not Roses | 1/20/1978 | See Source »

...position, he turned to discussing the impact on individuals of the "New Orientalism," the historical and modern-day forces within the American systems that have prepared people for these messages, and the potential effects of Orientalism on Americans and vice versa. Cox uses his own experience in specific in order to write a spiritual biography of groups of people in general...

Author: By Diana R. Laing, | Title: Benares on the Charles | 1/18/1978 | See Source »

...censuring and punishing political activity. A Crimson editorial from the winter of 1970 observed, "In a polarized community such as this one, a committee such as the CRR can only dole out punishment that is inherently political in content--punishment against those who are diametrically opposed to the order in power that the CRR represents...

Author: By William A. Schwartz, | Title: Continuing Revolution: A Critical View of the CRR Reforms | 1/18/1978 | See Source »

...rather confusing, possibly contradictory, way in the University. As we have seen, the CRR is explicitly empowered to discipline "interference with members of the University in performance of their nomal duties and activities..." Yet, according to the current edition of "Undergraduate Regulations and Services," "...offenses against law and order, or failure to behave with the maturity and responsibility expected of Harvard and Radcliffe students, will be dealt with as the Faculty and the Administrative Board shall determine." In addition, students may suffer immediate, temporary suspension ordered "...jointly by the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and a Committee...

Author: By William A. Schwartz, | Title: Continuing Revolution: A Critical View of the CRR Reforms | 1/18/1978 | See Source »

...MacArthur, 80, America's next-to-last known billionaire (only Shipping Tycoon Daniel K. Ludwig, 80, now remains); of cancer; in West Palm Beach, Fla. Son of a dirt farmer and wandering evangelist, MacArthur bought Bankers Life & Casualty during the Depression for $2,500 and through mail-order techniques built it into America's second largest health and accident underwriter. Although he also had multimillion-dollar interests in other companies and in real estate, MacArthur maintained an eccentric and frugal existence, pocketing desserts he could not finish on airplane flights and picking up discarded soft drink bottles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 16, 1978 | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

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