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...with the starkness of Grant Wood's painting of an American couple--man holding pitch fork and woman wearing granny glasses and tight hairdo--but captures rather a younger spirit in this pas de deux of a couple, whether American or Gothic we can't tell. What the dancers retain is the constant look, that stare that the painting gives to the audience; this time the stare is primarily between the couple, as their necks turn simultaneously, abruptly, glancing at each other across the floor. Whimsically, the two dancers tilt their arms in opposition, teetering from side to side...
...order to attract more capital, Yugoslavia now seems willing to open its economy wider to investment from other countries, including the U.S. Foreign investment in Yugoslavia has totaled only $62 million since 1967, mostly because the government has insisted that Yugoslav companies retain control of any joint project by owning at least 51 % of it. Two months ago, however, the government permitted the nation's largest copper and brass fabricator to form a fifty-fifty partnership with Bieler National Industries, a smallish U.S. marketing firm. Other equally owned ventures may be allowed in industries where Yugoslavia lacks...
...HARVARD Corporation's decision to retain its stock in the Gulf Oil Company, delivered in defiance of black leaders both here at Harvard and throughout the country, illustrates the University's callous disregard for the lives of black people in Angola...
...Corporation argued that Harvard had a moral obligation to retain its stock in order to influence Gulf in a socially responsible manner...
...disheartening but chillingly possible that we may fail. This horrible but real possibility cannot absolve us of the responsibility to act, for even in the face of defeat, we retain an important function: we must bear witness for the people of America. We must say that the death from the skies over Hanoi and Laos does not emanate from Nebraska and Detroit: that the mountain people in Appalachia do not hate the mountain people in the Central Highlands; that the Nixons and the Kissingers do not represent America but pervert it. That must continue to be our task as students...