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...standards proposed by the Agriculture Department-a 1.5-oz. beef and soybean patty, one slice of bread, six french fries, six ounces of milk, and catsup and relish as vegetables. Said Patrick Leahy of Vermont: "This is absolutely obscene." Shortly afterward, Stockman announced that the new proposals would be withdrawn. Said he: "It was a bureaucratic goof...
...Saudi Arabia would take the lead in getting an Arab League committee to agree that the plan should be pursued. Then the heavy artillery now manned in southern Lebanon by Palestinian guerrillas, as well as by the Israeli army, would be withdrawn from all points south of the Litani River...
...becomes clear that white students don't want to use the Foundation's resources to learn more about minorities and that Third World students think their time is better spent in political mobilization or in the libraries. The Foundation doesn't grow, but impatience does. Its funding is withdrawn after a few years, and the president of Harvard makes a regrettable statement calling the Foundation a noble, but unsuccessful, venture...
...specific goals, but because it is Harvard and because it is Harvard and because he revels in what he calls "very high class" dinners and functions Harvard provides for fund drive supporters. Had this been a "bricks-and-mortar" drive, it seems unlikely that Rand would have withdrawn support the way Barber might well have. "Nobody enjoys asking other people for money, but at least when you're doing it for Harvard, there's no question about the organization you're working for," he says, adding, "I am very fond of Harvard as an institution and proud that...
...Cutter's Way, as told by the press, is another one of those taken from Hollywood. Film (then titled Cutter and Bone) is released: film is panned by the incomparable Vincent Canby (who is to movie reviewing what the emperor's new clothes were to haute coterie): film is withdrawn only to be released later by the United Artists Classics division with a whole new ad campaign and is hailed as a nearly lost masterpiece. Art prevail over management, they would have it. And they're practically right...