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...Packard '73, member of the Harvard-Radcliffe Abortion Action Coalition, estimated that 2500 protesters--most of them women--marched down Pennsylvania Avenue to a rally on the Capitol grounds...
...endorsements were solicited from among those faculty and administrators HRWAAC members thought might be sympathetic to the coalition's objectives, Joanna Rorhbaugh, a first-year graduate student and Anne V. Packard '73, both coalition members, said yesterday...
...Cost of Living Council, has overall authority to wheedle, cajole, crack heads and otherwise employ his considerable political skills in imposing the freeze. He has moved briskly. When the Pentagon announced that certain servicemen's pay raises would go through on schedule, Connally called Deputy Defense Secretary David Packard and said: "You rescind those raises or I will." After Texas Governor Preston Smith declared that his state employees would receive their regular pay increases, Connally signed an order directing the Attorney General to see that Texas complied with the freeze...
Equally remarkable light-pieces were developed by Newton Harrison (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) and Rockne Krebs (Hewlett-Packard Co.). Harrison's room is dark, and in it stand five tall plastic cylinders. They are filled with helium, argon and other gases. When an electric current passes through the cylinders, the ionized gas lights up-rose-white, orange, deep blues, greens and purples. By controlling the gas flow, Harrison produces extraordinary changes of form in the light-bubbles, disks, even artificial lightning. The effect is solemn and exquisitely meditative; it is also wholly pictorial, without a hint of gimmickry. The room...
Deputy Defense Secretary David Packard went before the Senate Banking Committee last week to testify in favor of the Nixon Administration plan for the Government to guarantee $250 million in loans for Lockheed Aircraft Corp., a sum that would allow Lockheed to complete development of the huge L-1011 TriStar commercial jet and, indeed, could save the whole company. Though Packard dutifully endorsed the idea, his testimony badly damaged its chances in Congress. Fully mindful that other money-losing defense contractors might seek similar Government aid, he warned the Senate Banking Committee against setting the "precedent" of helping "any company...