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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dresses, triumphed over 350,000 classmates who entered this year's N.A.S.S.P. scholarship competition, a program called Century III Leaders. They are student-government presidents, church youth leaders, honor-society members. They were judged on their knowledge of current events, school grades and written proposals for solving public problems. Each of them received a $1,500 scholarship plus the free trip to Williamsburg. At the end of this two-day conference, funded by the Shell Oil Company, one will be named a kind of super Century III Leader, and awarded a $10,000 scholarship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Virginia: Pursuing Positiveness | 4/9/1979 | See Source »

...inherent in many parts of an advanced industrial society, had a common-sense acceptance as inevitable. But the price of progress, like the price of anything, has a ceiling, and for the nuclear power industry, the radioactive gases drifting from Three Mile Island have undeniably raised the price?and public consciousness about the risks?of nuclear power. Just how high rests in large measure on how Pennsylvania's nightmare ends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Nuclear Nightmare | 4/9/1979 | See Source »

...auditors studied School of Public Health accounts by selecting a sample of 600 transactions charged to federal funds over the three-year period. While they found no evidence of deliberate misuse of funds, the auditors reported improper of insufficient accounting procedures in nearly all areas. They used the sample to estimate $2.5 million in doubtful expenditures...

Author: By David E. Sanger, | Title: HEW Releases Draft of Audit Following Request of Congress | 4/7/1979 | See Source »

...questionnaire or have answered inadequately. So what does the ACSR propose to do? Write them again. What the committee fails to realize is that these companies will continue to scoff at Harvard's alleged concern about corporate involvement in South Africa as long as the University refuses to go public...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pen Pals | 4/7/1979 | See Source »

Although the university was officially open for business, most classes did not meet, and many secretaries and librarians did not report for work, Wesley J. Christenson, B.U. director of public relations, said yesterday...

Author: By Edward C. Forst and Nicholas D. Kristof, S | Title: Striking B.U. Professors Receive Support at Rally | 4/7/1979 | See Source »

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