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...remained until Jimmy Carter was to deliver his televised speech on inflation, and as Blumenthal was driven across town, he wondered if the President had any additional changes in mind. For months Blumenthal, the Administration's bridge to the business community and chief inflation fighter had advocated a tougher program to hold down prices and wages. So he had been shocked only one week earlier when Carter had told him he wanted to appoint Robert Strauss-no friend of Blumenthal's-to head the drive. With heavy urging, the Secretary had talked Carter out of the move...
...older are apt to be juggling a career and the care of children, often without a husband. They have figured out their lives for themselves. They have style. They are grownups, and they don't conceal their ages; if their lives are tougher, they frequently possess a certain centeredness and strength that is unavailable to those much younger, who seem somehow unformed, incomplete, far less interesting-and sometimes unbelievably ignorant. Not long ago, a Radcliffe senior confessed that she did not know what the Holocaust...
Organizing a Harvard-Radcliffe student union would be a much tougher job than writing a document to establish a junior Congress, but if we really want to end our helpless acquiescence to Harvard's policies, the process starts in our own departments and in our own Houses...
...problem boils down to this: while Harvard has improved, so has everyone else. Perennial powerhouse Princeton still looms as the giant, universally disliked Yale coach Steve Griggs has built the Elis into an awesome squad in just two years, and Columbia seems to get tougher all the time...
...Classics rolled to their impressive record despite facing tougher competition this year than in the past season. Senior guard Mike Cantor said yesterday, "Games were close, but I enjoyed it more than playing against better teams...