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...need for responsible fiscal action on both taxes and expenditures has been compelling for months, but in the last few days, in the light of the British action, it has become absolutely imperative." Thus last week did President Johnson react to Britain's 14.3% devaluation of the pound...
Despite all the time on the job, Crowther has never been predictable. Producers were seldom confident as to how he would react. He appreciated small-scale, low-budget efforts like David & Lisa; yet he also praised Elizabeth Taylor's Cleopatra as "one of the great epic films of our day." An early, ardent booster of foreign films, he helped win acceptance for them in the U.S. with appreciative reviews of Open City and Bicycle Thief...
Harvard, faced with the same challenge as Columbia, should react the same way, by barring military recruiters until Gen. Hershey agrees to play the game by the University's rules...
...distinguished colleague may be out of touch with recent discussion, but the issue is probably worth explaining. Students here and elsewhere have been told how they may not react to university involvement in military activities of which they disapprove. With other Faculty members I assume that this carries an obligation to say how they may react. I suggested (initially in Michigan and later here) that they organize to avoid employment in corporations of whose products they disapprove and classes of professors whose secret contracts they deplore. (I also suggested that this last was inapplicable under Harvard policy and that there...
...neighboring Roxbury--the Negroes--had infected the Puerto Ricans and the agencies that worked with them. Iglesias raised the cries of "Puerto Rican Power!" and "Self-government." While this might have seemed an excess of bravado for a man trying to mobilize 6,000 people, the agencies began to react...