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From a practical standpoint it is now too late to move Commencement a day later, as the students are demanding. But the controversy should make Harvard aware of the insensitivity which it showed in not changing the date earlier, and help it avoid the same thoughtless attitude in dealing with various minority groups in the future...
Brown admits that his deal with the Government was a retreat from AT&T's longtime resistance to a breakup. "Divestiture was not our idea," he says, "and we think it is wrong from the standpoint of the country's interests." But the alternative seemed bleaker: "Time was not on our side. The Government's determination to restructure the Bell System would have gone on for years, draining our energy and preventing us from planning our own future." Rather than cling to the past, Brown was eager to get on with the "exciting" task of building...
WITH INQUISTIVE ADOLESCENTS comprising a substantial percentage of moviegoers these days, it seems only logical--if only from an economic standpoint--that producers literally glutted the screen with "teenage trash films." Occasionally, the script writer will muster up a flimsy plot to legitimize the film's existence. More often the film will do nothing more than what it purports lure sex-hungry teenagers to watch John Travolta and NastassiaKinski sweat and pulsate...
Admittedly, First Affair goes a bit too far. Besides running the gamut of simplistic emotions and stiff, unbelievable actions, CBS somehow managed to depict every known Harvard stereotype. But from a public relations standpoint, even the overwrought tale of King's adventures carries a grain of truth. The admissions office has no control on how students do, how they behave, what relationships they have once they get here. Merely predictors, they can only form a Harvard class, not lead it through...
...Reardon said yesterday that officials Floyd S. Wilson, director of intramural athletics and recreation, and Dr. Salvatore N. Mangano, athletic department surgeon, were not speaking officially when they asked Coulter to sign a waiver. "From our standpoint we weren't at all asking her to sign a release," Reardon said...