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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are exceptions. And there are two or three this week. The first is U.N. ambassador Andrew Young, who will speak at Science Center B on Tuesday, December 6, at 3 p.m. Young has been known to say the unexpected, so a lot of people may go hear him. The other best bets are Christopher Nteta and John Kenneth Galbraith. Nteta is a native of South Africa and a member of the African National Congress. He came to Harvard to study in 1970, and eventually became an assistant professor at Boston State College, but the South African government has revoked...

Author: By Roger M. Klein, | Title: A Young and An Old | 12/1/1977 | See Source »

Galbraith, among other things, received a purple Cadillac when the Lampoon chose him as Harvard's funniest professor. He will speak at the Harvard Law Forum in the Ames Courtroom of Austin Hall, at the Law School on Thursday, December 1, at 8 p.m. Admission will...

Author: By Roger M. Klein, | Title: A Young and An Old | 12/1/1977 | See Source »

...seminar on "Planning for Alternative Futures: the Role of Government and Citizens" will take place in the Kirkland Junior Common Room. Alvin Toffler, author of "Future Shock" will speak to the conference at 1:30 p.m. A panel discussion will begin at 2:30, with Maryland Senator Paul Sarbanes and others as participants...

Author: By Roger M. Klein, | Title: A Young and An Old | 12/1/1977 | See Source »

...English that describes the military tactics of the Vietnamese guerrillas during that final offensive. On the whole, Burchett says, the Western press failed miserably to cover the war--and this argument has been supported in a series of books by American correspondents, who agree that their inability to speak Vietnamese and their location in Saigon kept them from one whole side of the war. The Western press "never understood the nature of the war," Burchett says, and it is hard to take real issue with...

Author: By Gay Seidman, | Title: A Peripatetic Fellow | 11/30/1977 | See Source »

...Price says, nervously stating the obvious. Price does say Nixon hopes to do more writing after his memoirs are published, and that the former president would like to lecture at college campuses before he grows too old. Eventually, Price says he foresees a Richard Nixon who will once again speak out on national issues on a regular basis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Raymond Price Remembers | 11/29/1977 | See Source »

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