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...recognize the grievances of OSTWS as valid, although we doubt that "Birth of a Nation" is such potent propaganda that it would foment race prejudice among college students or that a majority of the students attending our meeting came to cheer on the white oppressor. OSTWS should remember that in addition to "Birth of a Nation" we announced a screening of "The Great Train Robbery." Both are very early silent American films. Each in its way is a landmark in the development of film-making; each represents prodigious advances in film technology, direction and cinematography. The subjects...
...strike very close to home for alumni, who are proud to have attended what they consider the best college in America. If the College becomes a training school, it would be a blow to alumni egos worse even than losing the Yale game. So the quality argument is a potent one in dealing with alumni, and it can be used to justify anything from high tuitions to equal access, which Rosovsky told one worried alumnus will ensure that Harvard gets the best possible students...
Harvard, meanwhile, found its formerly potent offense sputtering. The second half saw McInally pick up only one reception, and Holt complete just 4 of 12 passes for 42 yards...
...Federal Energy Administration to centralize U.S. energy policymaking. The centralization lasted little longer than the crisis. Almost as soon as last winter's gasoline lines disappeared, the question of who should coordinate energy policy began to breed baroque rivalries-and now, with the Ford Administration in control, three potent Washington figures are scrapping for leadership. They...
...paper, at least, the airline sounded like the arrogant, politically potent Pan Am of yesteryear. Pan Am haughtily refers to its desired subsidy as a "national interest payment." But does it have a case for subsidy by any name? Should taxpayers in, say, Tulsa, Des Moines and Wichita (who do not see Pan Am aircraft at local airports) be called upon to keep Pan Am flying? Or should Pan Am simply be allowed to die, its profitable routes parceled out among other carriers and its unprofitable ones dropped...