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From H.G. Wells to George Orwell, and from Isaac Asimov to Harlan Ellison, science fiction writers have cared about the future. Whether science fiction can retain its present form remains a question. Ironically, the major drawback of many of the writers in Science Fiction, Today and Tomorrow is their almost paranoid concern with the purity of science fiction in the future. Like cold War Warriors faced with detente, the once isolated science fiction writer must confront a vast new audience that contains many of his old enemies...
Decisions by faculty to leave this University are seldom simple, and undoubtedly there are more factors than Leon tief's agreement with the Visiting Committee's findings that made him decide to "vote with his feet." But it is hard to see how one could retain hope in a department whose chairman holds that the "faculty's right to sell perpetuation is a sacred cow," and that "it is just not in the cards to change...
Radcliffe will probably retain control over its property and endowment, so the kind of change the Joint Policy Committee could make would be new Harvard jobs for Radcliffe administrators or places on Harvard governing boards for Radcliffe alumni. But whatever the Strauch Committee does will have a major effect on the corporate structure of Harvard and Radcliffe. Equal-access admissions will probably mean a single admissions office, which would make the pressure for full corporate merger even greater...
Actually, Hays has used the committee, which supervises all House employees and controls various personal comforts of House members, to expand his influence and further his ample ambition. He has arbitrarily fired various workers, terrorizing elevator operators, barbers and restaurant employees. In scrapping to retain his post, Hays promised to raise the per diem expense allowances for traveling Congressmen from $35 to $45. He has also used his chairmanship of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, which dispenses campaign funds, to reward friends and browbeat enemies. He misled the 75 incoming freshmen by implying that he alone had been the source...
...Although two were fighting to regain their posts, and no successor was certain of approval in any of the four positions, the action jolted the leaders of all 21 House committees into a new awareness: they will have to heed their colleagues and perform effectively if they wish to retain their power...