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...most sensitive sphere of activity for the Joint Center is the Metropolitan Boston area. Initially, there was considerable resistance from within the Joint Center and from the university administrators to the notion that the Center had a responsibility to assist the cities of Cambridge and Boston. Fears were expressed that the universities would become entangled in local politics and that town-gown conflicts would be exacerbated. Others predicted that scholars would bog down while trying to fight their way through the bewildering maze of political and bureaucratic jurisdictions that govern the metropolitan area. By now, however, most of the doubts...
...worlds of college track were in notable conflict this past weekend, and while Harvard was somewhat distant from the middle of the clash it was close enough to feel the reverberations. The Crimson, as a good rule, sticks to the safer sphere of team meets against other colleges, but on several occasions sends individuals into the big world of open meets where it, like anyone else, is in danger of being caught in politics...
...there are a few aspects of the academic policy at Wellesley which tend to denigrate the college's otherwise remarkable achievements in this sphere. They are the manifestations of three factors: the production ethic, the slowness to liberalize the college, the lack of endowment available to women's colleges generally (although for a women's college, Wellesley is well-endowed...
...Japanese government has nevertheless been unwilling to allow the full impact of its national prosperity to permeate the rest of Asia. Fearful of evoking the specter of Japan's wartime "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere," conservative Premiers have shied away from government involvement in the aid and development of the region. But over the past year, Premier Sato has moved quietly and in typical "low posture" to take Japan into a more active Asian role...
...trying to develop a soft cushion of economic development around China," says one Japanese Foreign Office expert. This "encirclement by prosperity" resulted last April in the largest all-Asian conference that Tokyo had witnessed since General Hideki Tojo's original Co-Prosperity Sphere conclave ia 1943. Six Asian nations attended-Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Laos and South Viet Nam, while Cambodia and Indonesia sent observers. The consequent exchange of information about economic aid needs and Sato's reminder that Southeast Asia receives only $2.50 per capita in foreign aid from all sources (v. $5 for Africa...