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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Whatever Finch's future, his role in Nixon's current talent search is crucial. The President-elect, closeted with Finch, Mitchell and Assistant Bob Haldeman, is working his way through two tomes, each as thick as a Washington telephone book, to mold his Administration. Prepared over the past seven months by Dr. Glenn Olds, former president of Massachusetts' Springfield College, the black-bound volumes contain scouting reports on some 1,500 possibilities for the Government's top 300 jobs. It remained to be seen how far Nixon will bow to political considerations in his appointments...
...that Germany is even stronger and France is weaker than many observers had previously believed. The French government is paying the price for giving in last spring to striking workers' demands for big wage increases. Those demands had been caused largely by the De Gaulle government's past policies of creating prosperity by holding down wages and skimping on social needs. In addition, France has long suffered from the tendency of many of its people to distrust their own currency, to put profit above patriotism and to have as their motto "In gold we trust." The crisis...
Students get almost nothing from participating in decisions as they have done in the past: at the whim and fancy of the administration. All previous examples of student participation have been the meanest instances of tokenisms...
...hope that this kind of irresponsible reportage of SFAC meetings--which has occurred repeatedly in the past--will not occur again...
Again, outside Harvard Hall, we have been treated to the lurid spectacle of self-styled, shabbily-dressed ruffians desecrating our wooden fences with paint and so-called slogans. The bursar's cards of many of these students were confiscated yesterday, as they were in the past few weeks. The University should take immediate action against the offending individuals. Expulsion, perhaps, would teach them a good lesson about the value of private property in a society such as ours...