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...years, Turkey has suffered almost every kind of civil ill. Student leftists, despairing of ever making much impact on Turkey's conservative, peasant-based society, regularly battled police and right-wing students. When 70,000 workers rioted last summer over an amendment to the labor code that would trim the power of radical union groups, order was restored only by the imposition of martial law. Turkey is also beset by poverty, with an average per capita GNP of only $346 a year, and inflation, which led to a 40% currency devaluation last August...
...Soviet Union, he had his passport revoked in 1950; when the Soviets awarded him the Lenin Peace Prize in 1967, he donated $10,000 of it to the Viet Cong. But, exclaimed Kent, "thank God I don't live there. If I did, and didn't trim my sails, I'd be liquidated...
...every-tub-on-its-own-bottom philosophy is not applicable to Radcliffe. As one alumna wrote to Gilbert, "I am unimpressed with the financial urgency of this marriage of convenience. I hope the Radcliffe trustees will not find us so weak-kneed that we cannot cut expenditures and trim our sails until we are sure the arrangement we are making is what we want for future Radcliffe students...
While stressing that he only had a "fragmented" conception of the job, he said he expected "to trim the job to manageable dimensions" and concentrate on delegating authority and on meeting students...
...spoke of "beginning to trim the job to manageable dimensions" but said that he has not decided whether this should be done through the appointment of one or more provosts or through the creation of other "relatively high-ranking posts...