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...first serious incident occurred last March, when Post executives gritted their teeth and published a long piece by Bagdikian sympathizing with charges by black staffers that the Post discriminated against them (TIME, April 10). The next month Bagdikian took part in a symposium in which he defended the Post against accusations of racist coverage. But he also suggested that economic boycotts were the most effective way of influencing newspapers. Post Executive Editor Benjamin Bradlee interpreted this as disloyalty, demanded Bagdikian's resignation, then tore it up after regaining his calm...
Leonard claimed that while he was at the Law School he helped to increase the number of black students there from less than 100 to 150. In October 1970 he organized a symposium at the Law School on "The Black Lawyer in America Today." He is also chairman of the American Law Schools Standing Committee on Minority Groups...
This year 170 of the 231 kibbutzim are either catering to tourists or running factories. Kibbutz hotels and restaurants in 1971 brought in only $5,000,000. But revenues from the kibbutz factories were $300 million, roughly 7% of Israel's total industrial production. At a symposium for factory managers last month, Winnipeg-born Dan Karmon, of the 212-member Kibbutz Industries Association, boasted that in the next five years revenues would more than double to $700 million. Already the kibbutz factories account for 35% of Israel's total plastics production, and in the past four years output...
More than half of the dead were Puerto Ricans arriving for a long-planned tour of the Holy Land. Another victim was renowned Israeli Biophysicist Professor Aharon Katzir-Katchalsky, 58, who was returning from a symposium at M.I.T. Also among the dead: two of the three Japanese. One had apparently been shot by a companion who accidentally swung his gun too far. The second had dashed out, and either tossed his grenade at a parked jetliner, and was killed when it exploded on the rebound, or held the grenade in his hand and committed suicide; he was decapitated. The third...
...There is a new sensibility toward abortion on the part of men." George H. Williams, Hollis Professor of Divinity, said last night at an Adams House Symposium on Abortion...