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Judging from the Nixon Administration's past performances, the standards of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare cannot be so stringent that this University cannot fulfill the requirements. And Harvard has never maintained, at least publicly, that it considers the HEW standards unreasonable. Instead, Harvard has repeatedly answered the HEW requirements with the most minimal programs clothed in even more numerous policy statements of commitment to nondiscrimination and equal employment...
...junta in his Buenos Aires apartment. Lanusse agreed to back down on a demand that Campora categorically censure the guerrillas. Campora, on his part, recognized the junta's right to combat terrorists as it sees fit until his inauguration, when martial law will be replaced by less stringent measures. The President-elect had good reason to compromise. If the terrorism were to continue, the generals would presumably have a strong excuse for trying to postpone, or even prevent, his assumption of power...
Unlike at Harvard, he will have athletic scholarships to attract top swimmers, far less stringent recruiting and admission standards, and $80,000 for Gambril to fly to any meet and bring in any prospective swimmers. "Their whole philosophy is different," Gambril said yesterday, "but while Harvard's was not necessarily mine I lived up to their policy and philosophy...
MAURICE STANS, 65, director of C.R.P.'s finance committee. A self-made millionaire accountant, Stans joined the Nixon Administration as Secretary of Commerce in 1969. By urging import quotas, easier pollution controls and less stringent consumer-protection standards, he accumulated a sheaf of political lOUs from businessmen. When he left Commerce last year, he began calling them in, advising businessmen to make large cash or stock contributions to the campaign. They could do that secretly, he noted, by making their gifts before a tough campaign-fund disclosure law took effect in April 1972. Stans' efforts got C.R.P. into...
...price guidelines. Committee Chairman Wright Patman favors a stern program that would roll back rents to the levels of Jan. 10 (the last day of Phase II), freeze prices and interest rates across the board for 60 days at the levels of March 16, and then give way to stringent controls...