Word: pass
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though initial reactions toward Chafin seem favorable, the police officers are still hesitant to pass judgment on their new chief. Some doubt that Chafin will be able to change his predecessor's policies, simply because Harvard wants it that way. "What are we to think when, the night after Gorski resigned, the union officials are called to a quick meeting at personnel, where we were informed that they have adopted Gorski's policies?" Laurence F. Letteri, president of the HPA, asks. Skepticism remains...
...question now is which aid package will eventually become law. Either option involves the largest one-time increase in federal aid to education since 1956; both packages carry about a $1.5 billion price tag. Clearly the aid bills are too expensive to enable both of them to pass, but Capitol Hill aides say Congress might pass both bills anyway and leave the choice up to President Carter...
RALPH POLILLIO, senior halfback. Only 5-9 but quick as a rabbit, Polillio can do it all--run back kicks, and run plays both inside and out--but he excels at pass-catching out of the backfield. Three serious head injuries the last two years have made it necessary for him to wear a new, specially padded helmet. Ralph's explosive, and can blow a game open...
...committees will continue this year the process of creating the Core, which began in 1975 when Dean Rosovsky called for a review of the old General Education program. Begun in the '40s when a liberal education was expected to, as Whitlock says, "preserve and pass on western traditions and culture," the Gen Ed. program lost much of its cohesiveness in the '60s when a proliferation of courses added titles to the catalog that had less and less reference to the original goals of the program...
...sometimes turns intimidating. Melvin Tate, a Southern organizer, finds employees of J.P. Stevens & Co., the textile giant, fearful that Stevens will close any plant that votes in a union. Stevens bosses, says Tate, do not make that threat directly because it is illegal, but their wives and relatives pass the word in gossip. In the West, Chaikin charges, owners of some garment plants have prompted the U.S. Immigration Service to raid their own factories and arrest signers of union cards as illegal immigrants?which many indeed were...