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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bryant fearfully recalls some of the more tense moments he has spent in Widener. Sometime in the 1950s, he recalls, a professor emeritus "of vast age" disappeared into the stacks with coat and hat to read. Sometime later, one library staffer found just the coat and hat where the professor had been. "The rumors flew hot and heavy," Bryant remembers, but the professor had merely forgotten his things. Incidents of theft rattle his memory further. While Bryant was still a student, the story is told, a man stole thousands of books from the collection. The culprit was later caught...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Bryant Steps Down: The Man Behind the Stacks | 4/19/1979 | See Source »

Rachel McCulloch, associate professor of Economics, said yesterday the agreement "allows for greater productivity in areas that countries specialize...

Author: By Daniel A. Carroll, | Title: Twenty-One Countries Sign Agreement to Lower Tariffs | 4/18/1979 | See Source »

...against his will? Privacy is indeed endangered in many areas of modern society and must be scrupulously protected, but concern for privacy cannot be absolute. Secrecy should also have its (narrowly-bounded) place. The point is the world of difference between telephone taps on an innocent individual and a professor assessing the suitablity of a student for CIA work on the basis of personal opinion and open observation. The latter hardly infringes any significant rights of privacy. The passing-on of the student's name without his permission to the CIA is a different matter because the student becomes automatically...

Author: By Trevor Barnes, | Title: The CIA: Sharing the Students | 4/18/1979 | See Source »

Raymond Vernon, Johnson Professor of International Business Government, called the pact that resulted after five years of negotiations, "a very substantial agreement, almost a landmark...

Author: By Daniel A. Carroll, | Title: Twenty-One Countries Sign Agreement to Lower Tariffs | 4/18/1979 | See Source »

...could think of this as a last-ditch attempt to shore up international trade, but until it goes into effect it is too early to judge its impact," Jagdish Bhagwati, professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said yesterday...

Author: By Daniel A. Carroll, | Title: Twenty-One Countries Sign Agreement to Lower Tariffs | 4/18/1979 | See Source »

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