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...structure of a self-contained community such as Harvard. In declining to address itself to the larger and more important issue of Kilbridge's overall performance as dean, the Corporation has substituted an inadequate institutional decision which upholds the Dean's action on six separate counts by imposing the strictest possible interpretation of the Statutes of the University...
Scrappy Fight. The Polish connection, as Gilligan calls it, was made in the strictest secrecy. Two weeks ago, the Governor slipped out of Columbus and flew to Manchester, N.H., where he headed for the home of Maria Carrier, a Muskie campaign worker. Mrs. Carrier had been told only that the candidate was meeting an important guest for dinner. When Gilligan appeared at the door, she exclaimed: "Why John, what are you doing here?" The answer was quickly apparent. Gilligan informed Muskie that he had almost decided to support him for President-so long as Muskie was willing...
...California Governor Ronald Reagan and the Democratic-controlled state legislature put together a welfare-reform bill that both sides claimed to find satisfactory. While it increased payments for a majority of families on welfare, it also provided for some of the nation's strictest welfare controls. Nearest relatives have been made more responsible for bearing the cost of care for the aged and the indigent; the department of social welfare got authority to scrutinize state income tax returns of recipients. Some of the tight new regulations, however, have been challenged in court...
...Myths, the Realities, and the Arguments (Corpus, $12.50; paperback, $6.95), is chiefly valuable as a contemporary exposition of the traditional Roman Catholic stand against all abortions. Grisez concedes only that the law need not forbid abortion in the classic case of saving a mother's life (even the strictest U.S. laws have generally allowed that exception) and possibly in a pregnancy due to rape. Where liberalization is inevitable, he suggests that legislators work to hedge it with restrictive amendments...
...professions as well as the most important functions of religion, and restricted to severe monogamy, while their wives flaunt their gigolos and patronize male prostitutes? Will they, in brief, be put in the position that women were in until about fifty years ago when "patriarchy" flourished in its strictest sense...