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Michael Sobel '72 said, "I don't know if it was done intentionally, but the timing of the bombing just before the Thanksgiving recess couldn't have been better. It will be pretty hard to get people mobilized. And from a political point of view, the fact that elections are over is probably not just coincidental...
...Representative Allard Lowenstein in New York and Senatorial Candidate Adlai Stevenson III in Illinois. Despite the drop in unrealistic enthusiasm, there seems little doubt that more students will be involved in party politics than ever before. At Cornell University, for instance, Government Professor Peter Sharfman says that without the recess perhaps 50 students would have worked in campaigns. With it, he estimates, 500 will. At Princeton, about 950 students -a fifth of the student body-are expected to be working for candidates...
...hope to have the meetings with department chairmen completed by early November when another overall outlook can be projected. I would then plan to report to the Faculty Council and to the Faculty as a whole before the Christmas recess on salary matters and other issues essential to financial and educational planning for the year 1971-72. I would also hope that members of this Faculty and students will be active in discussions of the basic and longer term financial questions raised in the Governance Committee paper on Harvard and Money...
...system. Pow! Appropriated. He proposes cuts in school funds. Chop! Done. In one corner of his dream stands a forlorn J. William Fulbright, talking while no one listens. With other prickly Democratic Sena'e oligarchs, Fulbright has been toppled by a Republican capture of the Senate. In a far recess of the Senate chamber, a vestigial cluster of radic-libs cowers as a troglodytic terrorizer in tailored twill cracks a whip over their heads. At last the President slips into the sleep of serenity and contentment...
...meeting was scheduled for 2 p.m. Vonnegut entered the room at approximately 2:11. He stood in a dark recess, the only light coming from the tip of his cigarette and the flash bulbs reflected off his blue suit. His first words were, "Are all you people here for my course...