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...wring a few further trade concessions from Japan and the Common Market nations. It was a high-stakes gamble, since their plan ran the risk of undermining confidence in the entire new system of currency exchange rates worked out in the Smithsonian agreement. Last week that system began to teeter, and the Administration decided to take what it could get and end the suspense. In Brussels, U.S. negotiators reached agreement with Common Market officials on several key trade issues. In Washington, Connally promised to send to Congress this week the long-awaited bill raising the price of gold and thus...
...Skinner, professor of Psychology; Krister Stendahl, dean of the Divinity School; Philip Stewart, assistant professor of French; Jack M. Stein, professor of German; Michael J. Tannenbaum, associate professor of Physics; Karl V. Teeter, professor of Linguistics, Department Chairman; James C. Thomson, Jr., lecturer on History; Thomas Von Foerster, assistant professor of Physics; Edward W. Wagner, professor of Korean Studies; Michael Walzer, professor of Government, Chairman of Social Studies; Donald P. Warwick, lecturer in Social Relations; Philip M. Weinstein, assistant professor of English; James D. White, assistant professor of Chemistry; George H. Williams, Hollis Professor of Divinity; Thomas H. Wilson, professor...
...Lakoff had his start in teaching here, and his (non-Harvard) dissertation was published here. At Michigan, he will have a central position in a newly reorganized department. We are sorry to lose him, and wish him good fortune.... Karl V. Teeter Chairman, Department of Linguistics
...with remarkable fidelity. Hickock (Scott Wilson), an ex-con, allows his narrow, twisted mind to feed on rumors of a safe with $10,000 in the Clutter farmhouse. He persuades his parolee friend Smith to come along for the ride. But this is no ordinary caper, since both men teeter on the edge of madness. Hickock has strong but subliminal homosexual feelings, and likes to call his colleague "Honey." Perry, brutalized since childhood by his rodeo-riding father, is the victim of a motorcycle accident that left his dwarfed legs in perpetual agony. To alleviate the pain, he has become...
Skin-Close. The solution that is most urgently needed has so far eluded everybody, and until it is found, the cities will teeter on the brink of violence. That alchemical formula, of course, is the one that would transmute the ghettos from hostile enclaves-impoverished, ugly, seething with resentment-into integral, integrated parts of the cities. "For the present," says James Q. Wilson, Moynihan's predecessor at the Joint Center and now his right-hand man, "the urban Negro is, in a fundamental sense, the urban problem...