Word: vacuuming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Since Harvard has thus far refused to assume the responsibility for guaranteeing a real choice to women, the Radcliffe community is morally obligated to do so. Until such time as the Radcliffe-Harvard student health plan covers the cost of pregnancy and of abortion we must fill the vacuum...
First stop is Thayer Hall basement: Headquarters. Tacked up on the wall behind and above the head of the porter captain with the watchful eyes, there is a sign that reads: THOU SHALT NOT DRAG THE VACUUM CLEANERS. The captain sports an understandable frown considering the hour, "It's only eight o'clock," he says. "I have a nine o'clock class, wanna get it over with," the student porter answers. "You're supposed to work two hours in a row, it's not good to split it up like this." "I know." says the student porter as the captain...
...Argentines had been speculating for months about when-not if-the soldiers would take power. Conditions were deteriorating so rapidly that only the military could restore order (TIME, March 29). The generals were not exaggerating last week when they claimed that Argentina was faced with "a tremendous power vacuum threatening to sink it in disintegration and anarchy." Political killings, by right-and left-wing murder squads, had recently reached the staggering rate of three per day (more than 2,200 Argentines have been killed by terrorists since Mrs. Perón came to power). Inflation was roaring at the pace...
...Florida, which will decide today whether or not George Wallace survives, is hardly the South at all in many places. It is the vacuum at the end of the struggle, the Muzak and Foster Grants at the end of the assembly line. Jimmy Carter has perfectly simulated the essence of that Florida by treaclizing Wallace's deep fury, conducting a grinning rebellion...
...repudiation of a basic principle enunciated in the 1972 Moscow summit. There the U.S. and U.S.S.R. vowed not to seek "unilateral advantages" against each other. Says a Munich-based Kremlinologist: "The Soviet Union is taking on the role of a world gendarme and is using its advantage wherever a vacuum is created by the withdrawal of the U.S." That interpretation is supported by the vigorous pace of the Soviet arms buildup (see following story). Brezhnev's speech does not spell the end of détente. But the unintended moral of his remarks may be that a balanced...