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While dozens of students last year busied themselves with rallies, overnight vigils and sit-ins in protest of Harvard's $580 million invested in companies that do some business in South Africa, several hundred other undergraduates, as Reeves did, got involved with a less showy kind of activism...
Berndt, the miracle worker who turned a perennial cellar-dweller into a three-time Ivy champ overnight, faces his toughest task yet this year with 15 starters gone from his 8-1 squad of a year...
...nursing-home resident with brain-degenerating Alzheimer's disease. Wagner was Kraai's friend as well as his patient. Monroe County Sheriff Andrew P. Meloni said that the doctor was "overwhelmed with emotion at (Wagner's) deteriorating condition." After Kraai was heard to speak of suicide, he was held overnight in jail, then freed on bail following psychiatric observation...
...budge. Portraying himself as a moderate operating between "radical Communist forces" and "conservative elements who shout murder and fire," he delivered much the same message as he had in his speech to members of the ruling National Party in Durban a week earlier. "Reform does not come overnight," he declared. "We shall not be stampeded into a situation of panic by irresponsible elements. We shall not be forced to sell out our proud heritage...
Says Cashion: "he's not afraid to take a stand, he's just not someone who will come in and change things overnight, though." Jewett agrees with this characterization of himself. "I like to get a good deal of background before I make decisions. I'd rather be confident that what I'm doing is the right thing...