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Partly as a result of reporters' demands for precision, briefers began to deal in body counts and other statistics that eventually proved to be of dubious value. As time passed, most enterprising newsmen boycotted the Follies. Explains Keyes Beech of the Chicago Daily News: "They seldom bore any resemblance whatever to the facts in the field." On March 16, 1968, a mimeographed release included this passage: "In an action today, Americal Division forces killed 128 enemy near Quang Ngai City. Helicopter gunships and artillery missions supported the ground elements throughout the day." Thus did the Follies announce the infamous...
...women can match the intense, continuous and lifelong dedication to a career typical of men. Many women temporarily drop out of the labor force because of pregnancy, child rearing and other home responsibilities. Even a woman who devotes herself continuously to a job' faces drawbacks. "A wife seldom is free to migrate to wherever her own prospects are best," says the report. It recognizes, however, that "some may label [the social-cultural role of women] as a pervasive societal discrimination which starts in the cradle." In any case, the CEA usefully points out that in seeking job equality with...
WHATEVER its contemporary interpretations, democratic liberalism in Cambridge has seldom been a passing phenomenon. With the presence of Harvard, Radcliffe, MIT and 22 other colleges and universities, any historical account of liberal leaders educated in the Cambridge area no doubt would uncover countless luminaries...
...forefront of liberal movements for 37 years, Tip O'Neill is noted, in the words of one Congressman, as "a compassionately human politician who knows the art of effectively communicating with men who are supposed to be, but seldom become, his adversaries...
...often selected primarily on the basis of financial need rather than experience or ability to teach. Many of the tutors and section heads receive little orientation or preparation for their work. Despite many outstanding exceptions, Faculty members often give little help or supervision to their teaching fellows. Graduate students seldom have the opportunity to engage in seminars or colloquia devoted to the problems they will encounter as teachers and educators; they are often not even encouraged to use resources already available at Harvard for developing their abilities as teachers. Little thought is given by many departments either to the relationship...