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...find each new person whom I meet a complete restatement of what life and the world are all about. The individualization of people-individualization of spirit, taste, emotion-this is what makes life ageless. For me, then, to search out people's faces, using photographs to retain some of what we see and feel when we are with them, is a very important application of photography...
Harvard's decision to retain its 683,000 shares in Gulf, after the Pan African Liberation Committee (PALC) had reasonably appealed to the University for a publicly announced sale, was doubly irresponsible. For it came with a refusal even to cast a vote of no confidence in the management of Gulf at the annual stockholders' meeting. Instead, the Corporation made a deal with Gulf to abstain from voting for the disclosure of information on Gulf's operations in Angola in return for a voluntary yielding of that information...
Guinier has also tried to develop student support in his efforts to retain the chairmanship. He donated $500 to the Pan-African Liberation Committee during the occupation of Mass Hall, and then he was the first witness in behalf of the PALC and Afro defendants at CRR hearings investigating the takeover. Guinier now expects that if he needs students to demonstrate in his behalf, should he be dismissed as chairman, they will come to his assistance...
...promised, while, true to its word, the Herald-Traveler announced that it would cease publication on June 18 after 125 years of publication, and sell its plant and assets to the Hearst Corporation for $8.5 million. The paper had staked its survival on a successful court battle to retain the license for channel five, worth an estimated $50 million. The profits of WHDH had more than made up for the huge operating deficits the paper had sustained in recent years. Without this financial transfusion, the paper seemed doomed...
...Tsiranana agreed to release the students (except for five who "died" in prison) and promised university reform. Then he placed Tananarive under military control. When the demonstrations persisted, he surrendered his powers to the army chief of staff, General Gabriel Ramanantsoa. But he did not resign, apparently hoping to retain his title and his palace...