Word: pamphleteers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...information, both from the Investor Responsibility Research Center and clippings from such publications as The Wall Street Journal and The Crimson. However, many well-informed sources favorable to the exit of U.S. corporations from South Africa are largely ignored. The United Nations Center Against Aparthied publishes about 30 informative pamphlets a year. Mr. Stevens is aware of this source, but the only U.N. Center Against Apartheid pamphlet ACSR members saw last year was one I brought in myself for Mr. Stevens to xerox (an accepted practice on the ACSR). It took about three weeks and a threat to make...
...there any secret? "The secret to happiness is really so simple," says one pamphlet. "You just need to be who you really are; and who you are is whoever you are when you stop doing all the things you do to be someone other than who you are because you're so afraid who you really are may not be all right...
...Beth Israel's case against Local 880 reached the Supreme Court in a climate of intense hostility and suspicion engendered by this series of events. In October 1974, Dr. Mitchell T. Rabkin '51, director of Beth Israel, ordered a technical employee, Anne Schunior, to stop distributing a union pamphlet in the hospital cafeteria, to which patients and visitors have access. At this time, Beth Israel's rules forbade the distribution of union literature in the cafeteria, although it allowed one-to-one union solicitation by employees of other employees during non-working hours in the cafeteria. The hospital did permit...
...largest fund drive for athletics in Harvard's history. At a time when universities were becoming increasingly worried over fund-raising prospects, Harvard in 1974 launched a $30-million drive to fund the Soldiers Field Athletic Complex. A fund drive pamphlet quotes one Ivy League administrator's opinions of Harvard's move...
...Reading Test. Required of all Freshmen. This is, as the pamphlet says, "A test to estmate reading skills." Don't worry, you can't fail, and it doesn'r really matter. If you don't do well, the University will recommend that you take a worthwhile reading comprehension course at the Bureau of Study Council. So the ends of this test are kindly, but the means are a drag. The material on the test is guaranteed to be dull (in '75 it was some drivel about English kings of the 12th Century and their legal practices, I think...