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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...control over automatic weapons, sawed-off shotguns, machine guns, silencers, gadget guns, bombs and grenades. Owners must register all such hardware with Washington as of Dec. 1 or face a maximum penalty of a $10,000 fine and ten years in jail. During a November amnesty allowing owners to report their more exotic weapons with no questions asked, the Internal Revenue Service, which oversees the drive, has received almost 20,000 registration forms in Washington. In addition, tons of armaments have been handed over to authorities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Firearms: Democratic Arsenal | 11/29/1968 | See Source »

...This is the second of a two-part serialization of the Report to the HUC on Decision-Making at Harvard. Yesterday's feature dealt with education decisions. Today, the author concludes with social and financial decisions...

Author: By Jeffrey C. Alexander, | Title: Power at Harvard | 11/27/1968 | See Source »

...looking for dull reading, Dean Ford's annual Faculty budget report is usually a good bet. Although the budget plays a big role in deciding such vital matters as tuition hikes and course offerings, few undergraduates ever see it. Fewer still would read it if they could see it full of mind-numbing statistics and confusing classifications, the report is rough going for students who aren't skilled in bookkeeping...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Dull But Important | 11/22/1968 | See Source »

...report's readability is also cut down by its inherent inaccuracy. Last Fall, Ford warned that the Faculty would run a $1.7 million deficit in 1967-68. By the time the expenses had been toted up, however, the loss had changed to a profit of more than $1 million. That dramatic a shift is unusual, but every year's budget ends up looking better in June than it had when predicted in October, because Ford is intentionally liberal in estimating costs and conservative in predicting income...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Dull But Important | 11/22/1968 | See Source »

...September. An even worse blow may come next year. If all the recommendations of the Dunlop Committee are accepted, faculty salaries will rise by another $370,000. And while this year's teaching fellow raise apparently came too late to hamper many plans for faculty expansion, the Dunlop Report may force several departments to slow down their ambitious expansion projects...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Dull But Important | 11/22/1968 | See Source »

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