Word: selfishnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Beyond the Corporation's apparent surrender of the power to name Harvard's treasurer, this relationship could be unwise for the University's own selfish interest which the Corporation claims to protect. In a recent book James Ridgeway, an editor of The New Republic, charges that State Street agreed to this arrangement on condition that its investment funds receive priority over Harvard's when trading shares of the same stock...
Indiscreet Talk. Last week's decision outraged many of Germany's trading partners, who saw it as a shortsighted and selfish maneuver that threatens their own economies. The French are bound to feel that the Germans are trying to force them into devaluing just after their June 1 presidential elections. The British rightly fear that their fragile pound will come under renewed speculative attack. Britain's foreign debts far exceed its reserves of gold and foreign money, and sterling may be able to cling to its $2.40 rate only if international creditors give the British more time...
...moderates, for their part, must continue to demand amnesty for the University Hall demonstrators. It is inconceivable to abandon the group which at great personal risk forced the necessary consideration of the issue. Furthermore, the moderates should join SDS in scrutinizing the University's often shamelessly selfish dealings with the Cambridge community...
...question whether King is missed more by whites or Negroes. Some whites, if for selfish reasons, look back to his nonviolent ideals with something like nostalgia. The black reaction is more complicated. Atlanta Attorney Howard Moore says: "No one can take his place. If God is gone, you don't say that there is a vacuum. You say that God is gone." Yet most thoughtful blacks today would reject this exaggeration. The Rev. Channing Phillips, a black favorite-son candidate from Washington at last year's Democratic Convention, insists that the time is past when...
...give the members of Congress the strength to place patriotism above selfish interest. Let the voice of freedom ring in America, as well as in the paddyfields of Viet...