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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SWELL JUST SWELL. Seven thousand dollars a year, and what do you get? Cold cereal in the morning (and don't forget the additives) served in plastic bowls, three bean salad, and, beginning last year, Feedback. And what, you rightfully ask, is Feedback? It would. I suppose, be too facile to simply answer, "Just what the name implies." It seems that the Food Services were recently bequeathed several million reams of top-quality 100 per cent rag content paper and have hired both a dead codfish and retired songstress Hildegard Knish (pronounced K'nish) to write their publicity releases. (Just...

Author: By Richard S. Weisman, | Title: Just a Bowl of Nitrites | 9/30/1977 | See Source »

...makes no difference if the pass was simply forgotten while going to the corner store for cigarettes or to visit friends. Africans who have lived in the city all their lives may be deported to starve in a Bantustan, a "homeland" they have never seen. Over a thousand people are prosecuted every day under the pass laws...

Author: By Neva L. Seidman, | Title: Harvard's Share in Apartheid | 9/27/1977 | See Source »

...other would) into my scheme. Kirkland House is dong The Fantastiks, that longest running of musicals where the characters, a boy and girl who live next door, look far and wide for love only to conclude that there's no place like home. Lowell will probably be producing A Thousand Clowns, that irrepressible story about a non-conformist who hates to work but does it anyway in order to retain custody of the nephew he loves. North House might be producing Clay, an original play by a Harvard tutor that takes place in Memphis days before the assassination of Martin...

Author: By Diane Sherlock, | Title: Mistakes to Enjoy | 9/22/1977 | See Source »

...humid enough to force a mid-day change of the essentials, crowded enough to make Nat Sci 118 seem relevant, and for the few thousand Harvard students who were wandering semi-aimlessly around the Yard yesterday, it was the opening day of school...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: A Sluggish Opening Day At Harvard | 9/20/1977 | See Source »

...want the liquefied natural gas tankers from the El Paso project off-loading in its ports. Besides, according to Government projections, the El Paso gas would be costlier to the consumer. Even so, Energy Secretary James Schlesinger estimates that Alcan gas will cost the U.S. consumer about $2.50 per thousand cu. ft., about twice the price of present domestic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy: The Fight to Pipe Alaska's Gas | 9/19/1977 | See Source »

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