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...Hughes' withdrawal will have minimum impact on the campaign because he has such a small estate to divide. Taken almost as lightly is the candidacy, announced late last week, of Oklahoma Senator Fred Harris. Harris' most valid claim to the position is that he presided, none too successfully, over the Democratic National Committee in the darkest days after 1968. But he has no real strength on the national stage and is in political hot water in his home state...
Term-Paper Material. After being questioned by the students for one to three hours each, the bankers were nearly unanimous in giving them high marks for intelligence and zeal. But most doubted that anyone in the Nader group knew enough about banking to make valid judgments on the more complex issues. Says Thomas C. Theobald, a senior vice president: "It was like two college students looking for term-paper material." He was surprised that the interviewers overlooked several obviously controversial topics, including Citibank-managed investments in South Africa and in companies that are polluters...
...undergoing explosive social change. Unless decisions are explained with sufficient care, lower courts may be unclear about the broad principles they are supposed to apply in particular cases. When the Supreme Court scants reason in favor of mere results, says Stanford's Gerald Gunther, a decision may be "valid only as long as you have a majority of five votes. As the reasons get weaker, a later judge is freer to follow his own likes and dislikes. A decision is then easier to overturn...
...blames this conditioning of women for much of their present situation in society. In her inaugural address in May 1960, Bunting spoke of not paying enough attention to women's education. "True, we all have theories but do we have valid findings? Or is it possible that we dodge this question too because its investigation demands decisions that we fear to face...
...issues of abortion reform and population control. One graduate expressed a strong belief in the concerns of Women's Liberation. Wrote Charles Hartshorne: "Racism continues to be a dismal scandal, and so does the failure of people to realize the full meaning of technology for the possible and, on valid grounds, desirable, emancipation of women from the socially assigned restriction to being mere wives and mothers... We white men have got to outgrow the lingering superstitions about sex and race, and rethink customs and institutions which are adequate to the dangers and difficulties that technology has produced...