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Twenty demonstrators showed up at Willard Straight Hall--the Cornell student union--to picket the presence of CIA recruiter Jim Fitzgerald, who had to leave the scene nearly one hour before the Career Fair was scheduled...
There were no arrests at the protest. However, Willard Straight Hall Director Le Norman J. Strong twice warned the protesters that they would be arrested if their demonstration...
...which the Harvey Milk students have, in effect, been publicly identified as homosexuals. Can they really be certain of their sexual orientation? "No question," says Dr. Irving Bieber, author of a study of male homosexuality, who points out that the Harvey Milk students are "self-selected." But Dr. Willard Gaylin, chief of New York's Hastings Center, disagrees: "Adolescents are in a period of confusion about sexuality. The whole idea that an adolescent knows (whether he or she is homosexual) is ludicrous...
...demonstrated the shaky state of consumer confidence in banking and sparked demands that all deposit-taking institutions be federally insured. Most of all, Maryland's crisis raised doubts about the overall health of the savings and loan industry, which is attempting to recover from a six-year slump. Said Willard Butcher, chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank: "We have the potential for a very serious thrift crisis in this country...
They disturb no reader, either, for Willard fails to convey a sense of why they were so great. Why does Iron Man McGinnity remember his first home run? Is there anything Lou Gehrig won't do for his mother? What is it about baseball that calls men back from the dead? The average reader, caught up in a tale of love, war, and the supernatural, won't ask those questions, but it's a shame Willard, definitely an above-average writer, does not answer them...