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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That spirit never fully formed, but that can be blamed more on the problems with the whole rally than on the Young Radios, who played with a lot of energy, intensity, and spirit of their own. After an instrumental bit and a quasi-reggae tune called Scratching (Ruskin: "say sort-of reggae, don't put down that I said quasi-reggae"), the Radios launched into "Modern Day Leper Man," a song about the Three-Mile Island near-disaster, before finishing up with "South Africa." Because the march was not ready to start on time, they did "South Africa" again...
...reading period afternoon wandering around Boston (exams are weeks away...) The lobby of the John Hancock Building and the mezzanine of Boston City Hall share an exhibit called Jazz...A Visual Experience which brings together the work of eleven local artists and photographers. Jazz artists lend themselves to this sort of treatment--the music is inseparable from the men who make it--and both exhibitions are free...
Congress will find it difficult to avoid the passage of some sort of tax. Oil industry profits for the first three months of 1979 will soon be released, and they will show a surge of perhaps as much as 40%, largely because the OPEC cartel's price rises have caused higher prices in the U.S. too. In addition, companies benefit because their stockpiled inventories of crude, bought at lower prices, also rise in value. That alone will be enough to anger a public already critical of the oil industry, and the continuing rise in gasoline and other fuel costs...
...potential at new, higher prices. There is a lot to be found; we have not really looked for it the same way as for oil because earlier there was no market and later prices were set so low that there was no incentive. We still have to sort out nuclear. It is likely that a number of plants now operating will have to be shut down for a period, and new reactors will be delayed...
...amendment" to the Rosovsky proposals, Rosovsky angrily disagreed. He resigned his seat on the Standing Committee while comparing the Faculty vote to the British capitulation to the Nazis in Munich. Other national observes also called the vote a capitulation, but Pusey--at long last realizing the necessity of some sort of compromise--defended it, saying, "The black student thing is a very special matter...