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...does this quote relate to African American Studies? An article on page three of the registration issue of the Harvard Independent entitled "Afro-Am Gets Pro-Tem Faculty, Chairman" tells us how. The article reveals that the department has: one and a half regular faculty members, two African Americans, no students on the newly formed five-member executive committee, and no African American chairman. Compare this to the dean's suggestion that Jewish faculty and students cooperate to form a Jewish Studies curriculum...
...Menninger Foundation says jogging makes patients more talkative and helps a bit with depression, but cautions that "the enthusiastic claims of instant cures of depression have to be evaluated with a great deal of salt." In the common-sense view, all exercise is likely to bring a tem porary feeling of well-being and a distraction from personal woes. Clinton Cox, a reporter for the New York Daily News, thinks he knows the real secret of the jogging cure. Says he: "It's almost impossible to worry about your job or other such mundane pursuits when your body...
...fact, although their views on a variety of subjects, including race relations and the war in Vietnam, diverged widely, Eastland and Hart were personal friends. Despite their friendship, however, Hart voted against Eastland when the latter ran for president pro tem of the Senate, believing that someone with Eastland's views should not be in the line of succession to the presidency...
...have been expected to support Byrd's challenger, Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (D-Minn.). In fact, so widespread was the liberal defection to Byrd that Humphrey, recognizing he had no chance of winning, withdrew. Two days later, however, Humphrey received a consolation prize--he was made deputy president pro tem of the Senate, garnering a $7500 pay increase, a limousine, a larger office, and no new formal responsibilities...
...mayor died on December 20 and the city had a problem. Wilson Frost, the black president pro tem of the City Council who had presided in Daley's absence, told reporters, "I am acting mayor." But the city's corporation counsel, William Quinlin, said there was no acting mayor until the City Council met the following week to select...