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Delay & "Democracy." Nor was there any hint of change in Soviet policies. The session rubber-stamped a proposal originally made by Brezhnev that the regime be "democratized" by increasing the number of the Supreme Soviet's standing committees from three to nine-which in substance meant nothing. Kosygin revealed no fresh policy to cope with Russia's lagging economy; instead, he disclosed that the new five-year plan, scheduled to have gone into effect last January, was still not ready, possibly because of wrangles over a new pricing structure designed to permit limited fluctuation in response to supply...
...just the other way round. Though many of his colleagues as well as his targets share Johnson's view, Mollenhoff figures that the s.o.b.s are the ones he is after. To him, there are no holds barred when he is digging. He once hounded a locked-door session of a board of supervisors in his home state of Iowa by climbing onto the second-story ledge of the courthouse and later wriggling through a cornfield to eavesdrop on his prey in a farmhouse; they felt so harassed that they finally abandoned closed meetings...
...Each girl is allowed three late nights, with the previous permission of her proctor (who issues her a late pass), during the 8-week summer session...
Baird admits that the Harvard Summer School's philosophy is "fairly conservative." But condescension is a greater sin than conservation. Ten years ago the summer session was more like a country club than a school, Baird said, pointing out the dangers of social freedom. "We used to go around offering section men salaries to teach during the summer," he says. The teaching standards have been improving rapidly since then, he claims, and academics are the primary concern...
Harvard, even during the summer session, can afford to retain its identity as a school which attempts to foster a sense of social responsibility along with high academic standards. One does not exclude the other...