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THIS THURSDAY, Harvard students will march by candlelight through the Yard and through Cambridge to protest American military aid to El Salvador. We urge every member of the "Harvard community"--students, faculty, workers and even administrators--to join, to add their numbers now and help swell this crucial movement...
...master's degree in library studies at the University of Hawaii before coming to TIME in 1970 as a book cataloguer. She and her staff are busiest when newsmakers are. Last October the Iran-Iraq war, the labor crisis in Poland and the approaching U.S. presidential election helped swell the number of queries for the month to 7,508. "I think that was an alltime record," says Underwood-Rich. "But I haven't had a chance to check...
...howls begin in what undoubtedly will swell to a coast-to-coast chorus of complaints against the President's bold program. It is open to legitimate analysis, doubt and objection. Reagan will have to prove that whatever spending cuts he finally proposes will not hurt the "truly needy," a pledge that he repeated over and over last week. His tax-reduction proposal does indeed run a risk of swelling the deficit...
...Jake Garn (R-Utah)--around the U.S. to denounce the giveaway treaty. While it lost the Senate vote, the New Right had raised and spent $3 million during the campaign and brought "countless members of the Silent Majority into the conservative movement." Viguerie claims the popular swell also put new conservatives in Congress that following November...
Since that is so, it ought to follow that the world's big spenders would constantly be shrinking from the public's stony stare, like devils in the sunshine. That they do not shrink, that instead they swell and shimmer, may be yet another sign of our essential depravity. For all its sermons to the contrary, the world loves a big spender. We cannot help ourselves. We may be stripped of all our possessions, out in the cold, down to our last charge plate (not one from Saks), and standing last in a breadline that accepts only cash...