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...directs the Harvard office that counsels students on careers, thinks so many people are going to college these days that pretty soon college graduates--even Harvard graduates--will be forced into blue-collar jobs. Fisher's office publishes a book called After Harvard What? that predicts "that new and tougher competition will exist from the brightest Ph.D. on down, that many, no matter how well-educated, will end up doing work of a somewhat different kind than the work which someone similarly educated would have undertaken even a few years...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann, | Title: What Harvard Means | 9/1/1975 | See Source »

...shows are having an even tougher passage. Phyllis, starring Cloris Leachman, and Fay, with Lee Grant, came close to never getting on the air at all. Phyllis Executive Producer Ed Weinberger almost choked when CBS meddled with the pilot, in which the widowed Phyllis suspects her 17-year-old daughter of having an affair. Says Phyllis, as she ends an explanatory phone conversation with her daughter: "Nothing happened-if she is telling the truth." CBS cut the tag line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: No Time for Comedy | 8/25/1975 | See Source »

Jackie and Carle have been rowing together at the University of Wisconsin, and they both look and talk kind of like large cheerleaders--Carle is six feet one inch, and Jackie not much shorter--only they're tougher. Jackie is blonde and a little pouty, Carie dark and sleek and a little more sophisticated--she rows with large silver hoop earrings dangling from her ears. They've become breakfast regulars at Tommy's--another group, led by Nancy Storrs, drives over to "The House of 'Cakes" every morning, and today Claudia Schneider got a bunch of people...

Author: By Natalie Wexler, | Title: We Happy Band of Sisters | 8/1/1975 | See Source »

...Does Henry Kissinger's speech yesterday in Milwaukee indicate that we are taking a tougher line toward the Third World and Fourth World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Toward a Ford Doctrine? | 7/28/1975 | See Source »

...know whether you call it a tougher line, but I think the newer members of the United Nations have to recognize that they are a part of the world family now, and with that they have a responsibility to look at the circumstances in a broader way than just whether they are a group of underdeveloped countries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Toward a Ford Doctrine? | 7/28/1975 | See Source »

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