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...occasion is the world premier of Dealing, a movie based on a book by Michael Crichton '65--Harvard's second-most-successful pulp author--concerning, fittingly enough, a slick young Harvard entrepreneur who pays his club dues by engaging in Cambridge drug traffic. ("Financing Higher Education through Student Enterprise," as they say.) Sack Theatres, the Boston outlet for this creation, decided that a real-life Harvard tie-in would be just the thing, so they wrote to the President offering to make the premier a Harvard benefit. But the idea of the University affiliating itself with a business venture concerning...
...titles are titillating-and similar to those on the cover of any pulp magazine. But True To Life is published by Emory University, and it is meant to teach, not tease. Noting that most of the women who went to Emory's birth-control clinic in Atlanta were avid readers of confessions, the clinic's family planners decided to write some of their own. Their stories, like those in True Confession, are about torrid love affairs, but the message is different. In True To Life, women learn not to be victims of circumstance, or of men, but instead...
Drop in the Samovar. The cracks are still narrow. In 1970 the U.S. sold $118 million worth of goods to the Soviets, mostly hides, pulp, aluminum oxides and machinery. In return, Americans imported $72 million in Russian goods, principally sable skins, fuels, aluminum scrap, chrome ore and other metals. That was a mere drop in the samovar for the Soviet Union, which does about $5 billion worth of business a year with other non-Communist countries...
Controls on industrial wastes in Japan are lacking. In the port of Fuji, 380 pulp and paper factories are spewing untreated wastes and sludge at such a rate that not only are the fish dying off but the harbor continuously must be dredged...
...Soviet Premier was evidently shaken. He showed up nearly an hour late for dinner, and omitted some prepared remarks thanking the citizens of Ottawa for "the hospitality they have shown us." Later, Kosygin was carefully cocooned by security men as he toured a research center and a pulp factory outside Ottawa, and met with businessmen in Montreal before flying off to Vancouver and Edmonton for some high-level tourism...