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...week's end, with Patty Hearst and the Harrises still on the loose, the FBI and police were trying to track down a spate of rumors and reports about the trio. One tip had it that Patty would surface in Havana. Another, also unconfirmed, claimed that the Black Muslims had given $50,000 to a black man in Griffith Park two days after the shootout. Some-or all-of the sum was said to have been passed on to the fugitives...
...reasons for the sudden spate of resignations is unclear. In the past, Harvard's resources, salaries and historical pre-eminance were compelling attractions, and Cambridge was a quieter, less crime-ridden place to be. The academic industry in the U.S. was so much smaller then that a handful of universities could easily dominate the profession...
...latest in a recent spate of huge, gigantic, incredible spectacle films on TV. This won more Oscars than any movie in history (11), but it's still a good film. (Especially the chariot race scenes.) Ch. 7, 8 p.m. Color, 3 1/4 hours...
Allen's observation is peculiarly ironic. In the recent spate of kidnapings -Patricia Hearst, Atlanta Constitution Editor Reg Murphy, Mrs. Eunice Kronholm of Minneapolis, eight-year-old John Calzadilla of Long Island-there has been one major exception to the generally sensible coverage of these stories: the Minneapolis television and press, including Allen's Tribune. Though the Trib was not alone in pursuing the Kronholm kidnap story with excessive zeal, its reportorial ingenuity and aggressiveness at times crowded its competitors -and its usual sense of discretion...
...conflicts within and beyond the, University, it also undertook investigative reporting with a gravity of purpose unusual for a college paper. while excesses were sometimes committed, we, the readers, always knew that objective reporting and representative editorializing on major issues were the goals and, usually, the reality. The recent spate of articles on Prof. Kiely and Hugh Berryman have typified an inexplicable decline in what had augured to be an emerging Crimson tradition of high journalistic standards. This deterioration is inexplicable because many of the questions which stimulated discussion five years ago still exist: Harvard's involvement with its community...