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...form is all. His only discernible goal as President is to avoid risk to his institution and minimize conflict which might threaten it by making cosmetic concessions which divide and pacify the constituencies he must manipulate. His change in Harvard's sex-ratio is an excellent example of this tyle of pacification. Bok has no desire to compromise Harvard's honored principle of male supremacy by making admission 1 to 1 or sex-blind. Demonstrations, petitions, letters, lawsuits--nothing will force him to admit that women deserve an equal place in the University. But neither will he make a profitless...
Suffering from cold shooting both nights, the Crimson failed to seriously threaten either opponent though it was never out of either contest until the closing minutes...
...will permit the disallowed balance -that is, about 3.7%-to go into effect along with the regular second-year increase, thus letting some 200,000 aerospace workers end up at the wage levels originally negotiated. In the interim, they will lose about $340 each in wages. Union officials, however, threaten to contest the board's rejection in court...
...sell their holdings of sage and scrub for as much as $3,000 an acre. Colorado is now one of the nation's fastest-growing states (seventh after Nevada, Florida, Arizona, Alaska, California and Maryland). But there is a mounting fear that the developers' busy bulldozers threaten the very qualities of their state that Coloradans cherish most. Worried, the Colorado Institute on Population Problems has taken to statewide TV to urge: "Think small...
...stimulate the economy, especially the sagging greeting card industry. "We will put a surcharge on misery and devalue want and deprivation of all sorts," the President rhetoricizes as thousands of militant turkeys and Easter rabbits storm the White House to protest the elimination of their holidays. The turkeys threaten court action. At left WILLIAM KUNSTLER, lawyer for the turkeys (with CHARLES NESSON, ALAN DERSHOWITZ and LEONARD BOUDIN, representing the bunny rabbits in background), declares, "We are in consultation with the reindeer and other oppressed beasts to examine what we can do together to fight this racist, sexist, humanist plan...