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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...asked if the useless drain on committee time exasperates him. When it comes to faculty committees, MacCaffrey says, "I am used to the high wastage of time." He accepts the Council's decision with democratic resignation: "We live in a world of majority decisions." Perhaps. It all depends on whose majority he is talking about. After all, the Student Assembly referendum last year revealed that about 3400 undergraduates polled wanted the University to establish a study abroad program that would offer academic credit and satisfy language requirements. Only 19 faculty members sit on the Council...
...appears that in the Rev. Jerry Falwell we might have a potential "Christian Khomeini" on our hands. If Mr. Falwell's philosophy were to prevail, what would happen to teachers, preachers and politicians whose points of view differ from his? What would become of schools and textbooks not in harmony with his theology or political philosophy...
...fiercer storm began to rage inside the exchange. Only minutes after trading opened, brokers were deluged with orders to sell. By the time trading had been under way for an hour, everyone realized that the rush was on. "It's almost a total panic," said a broker whose clients were jamming his telephones in their haste to sell. "More dramatic than anything I've seen since the assassination of President Kennedy. The institutions and banks are selling, but they aren't as dramatic as the public. The public always seems to overreact. They're just calling...
...overshadowed by such neutralist giants as Yugoslavia's Josip Broz Tito, then 68, and India's Jawaharlal Nehru, 70. Castro has now survived for 20 years as Cuba's "maximum leader." He is also riding a wave of international prestige as chairman of the nonaligned nations, whose conference he was host for-and dominated-in Havana last month...
...fruit of several years' research by Art Historians William Agee, director of the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, and Barbara Rose. As an American painter, Agee claims in his excellent catalogue, Bruce "ranks with or surpasses the best of his generation and far outdistances a hundred artists whose reputations maintain secure places in our histories." Whether or not this is strictly true, we are still left with a very considerable painter, seen whole- or almost whole- for the first time...