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James Q. Wilson, Shattuck Professor of Government, tells incoming freshmen every year that Buddy's Sirloin Pit has the best hamburger in Harvard Square. Many feel Bartley's Burger Cottage deserves the lofty honor. You decide...
...more immediate problems of poverty and racism in Harvard's backyard. He stands in House dining halls, beneath gaudy chandeliers, surrounded by the gazes of past House masters, and tries to describe the Fidelis Way housing project where his revitalization corps is concentrating its efforts. "It's a goddam pit," he says with typical directness, "and it needs your help...
...part, Carter has slipped from the roost only once, descending into the political pit to label Kennedy's comments on Iran "damaging to the country." But the Rose Garden strategy, as Carter's miraculous two-month turn about shows, has never worked better. At the mere mention of a word--"hostages"--the network cameras roll, and Carter is there, in your living room, talking tough, talking in prime time, talking about the thing that people are interested in. The rally-round-the-flag quotient, Kennedy Massachusetts organizers say, has fallen from it Iowa high, but no one doubts that...
...fight for mayor, which could take several meetings to complete, will pit Vellucci against another moderate, Leonard Russell, Francis Duehay '55 and Walter Sullivan. Current mayor Thomas W. Danehy may also run for re-election...
McLaughlin not only liked seeing those 1000 people enjoying themselves in the bleachers--he viewed them as a potential weapon. "If we fill this place up when Penn and Princeton come in here, this will be a real pit." At least someone sees a silver-lining in Harvard's most embarrasing facility...