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...activities financed by President Bok's discretionary fund, provide n outlet for black students that Harvard does not usually provide, Peter I. Armstrong '76, another of the student organizers, said yesterday...
...episodes of Nixon's public career might support those descriptions, but Abrahamsen makes his mountains of childhood molehills. When Nixon was a boy, he would lie awake at night, listening to whistles of passing trains and fantasizing about faraway places. This wanderlust, which continued in adulthood, was an outlet for "frustrated sexual desires." Young Nixon was also adept at mashing potatoes without leaving any lumps; Abrahamsen writes that he "chose to release his energy" in this "unusual" way to win his mother's love. The "extent and intensity" of the mashing suggests "aggression" against the potatoes, "a substitute...
...increasing at four times the median U.S. rate, and if the trend continues Latinos will become the country's largest ethnic group by the year 2030. As important, perhaps, are their reserves of creativity. Says the magazine's other managing editor, Philip Herrera:* "Nuestro will provide an outlet and showcase for the tremendous talent in the Latino community, the bulk of which has never been tapped...
...watt transmitter that can reach about 1 billion people in Africa, the Middle East and Asia. The station, worth an estimated $12 million, was known not only for spreading the Gospel but also for broadcasting the most reliable news and educational programs of any Africa-based outlet. Since the downfall of the Christian monarchy in 1974, Radio Voice has been under increasing pressure from Ethiopia's military rulers, and on March 12 they finally seized it. Broadcasts last week were haranguing the former owners for promoting "bourgeois ideology" and "imperialism, the archenemy of the oppressed peoples...
...Malawi, translated a tome on anthropology from the French, and taught at Indiana University. Finding that her Indiana students paid more attention to television than to books, Poussaint fired off copies of her resume to television and radio stations around the country. CBS hired her for its Chicago outlet, and three years later made her a network correspondent there, at $28,000 a year. But Poussaint considers network reporting just another step in her relentless quest for learning and experience. She talks of going back to teaching, or helping an African nation set up its own television industry. Says Poussaint...