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...main block to the organizing drive could bethe anti-union efforts of the administration.During past election drives in the Medical Area,the University ran a "viscious anti-unioncampaign," Sullivan says. Employees were"inundated" with anti-union material and invitedto meetings with Harvard's top administrators,which "created an atmosphere of tension andanxiety...
...economy of Birmingham, Alabama, The Magic City, depends largely on the throbbing steel mills which ring its borders. While whites may hold any job and earn at any wage level, Negroes in the city are caught in a viscious circle of poverty; discriminatory employment practices prevent them from rising to even the most basic managerial positions. Not only does such discrimination strangle the economy of the Negro community, but it causes imbalance in education and housing and drives many of the community's more talented members away in search of better jobs...
...editorial in Monday's Princetonian, following the viscious 65-7 drubbing administered by Navy--the worst defeat in Nassau history--asks that "a new kind of pep rally be held next Friday--a 'back to the team' rally. Let it be held at the scene of the celebrations for Princeton's greatest triumphs, her Big Three victories . . . Let's burn the Bear of Cornell at a big bonfier Friday night in front of Clio Hall, to show that we shall stick by Charlie Caldwell and the team as faithfully as we did during the undefeated years. It was no mean...
...School, prefacing his remarks with an admission that he Law School was all he could discuss from experience, went on: This is a cutthroat community where grades mean money. Princeton never placed such emphasis on position in class. There was not the same degree or atmosphere of viscious competion at Princeton. There we trusted each other and relied on our own ability...
...treat their friends among graduates and undergraduates as a privileged class, yet their friends put very great pressure upon them for special seats. The whole spirit of good sport rests upon equal opportunities to all, both in playing the game and seeing it. Certainly, any system is a viscious one which deprives the undergraduates of their legitimate right to see the games under the most favorable conditions...