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Duncan yesterday criticized several newspaper accounts of Webster's plight, which he said described her as "naive...
...King, one of five managers for the varsity football team, describes the plight of Harvard's student-managers best when she says: "If all the travel, hotel, food, and equipment accomodations are running smoothly, nobody notices us, but when any problems come up, that's when we start getting attention." King, a three-year veteran who during the season works up to 40 unpaid hours a week as head manager for the gridders, adds, "managers often work three full years before they get a letter...
...contraceptives or the consequences of non-use." This is ridiculous. Young people can understand. The real problem is the older generation's inability to teach our youth the hows and whys of contraception. Because we Americans find our children's sexuality embarrassing, we would rather accept the plight of unmarried teen-age mothers-and hold ourselves blameless...
...York, where American and German agents hunt and are hunted? Manhattan-based OSS Agent Carl Berlin picks up a trail that leads to something big. Berlin, a German-born Jew, learns that Levi has escaped the death camp and is already in the U.S. His purpose: to stamp the plight of the Jews on the world's conscience by assassinating Roosevelt. This seems incredible: the Italian actor is in Hollywood beginning a movie career even though he can barely speak English. However, Levi's disappearance from a film studio sets off a cross-country chase. With a sackful...
...donation spurs other alumni with spare change in their pockets to think about the needs of Harvard's young--and often neglected--scholars. This area has not in the past been a magnet for glamorous multi-million dollar contributions--a fact illustrated, at least in part, by the plight of most current junior faculty members--but few are as important if Harvard is to remain the preeminent incubator of academic talent...