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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Oleg Grabar, professor of Fine Arts and Faculty Council member, said yesterday Rosovsky's new approach may "force departments to think more about the availability of women" when they select the fields in which they plan to grant tenure posts...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi, | Title: Rosovsky to Promote Affirmative Action | 12/6/1979 | See Source »

...urge Lowell House, South House and the Freshman Council to reconsider their votes, and other houses not to select nominees...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Abolish the CRR | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

...where fantasy has been exhausted, there is still real life to some toys and games. Popular music, for instance. There is the Bee Gees rhythm machine, not an instrument really, but instead a true rhythm machine. There are three rhythms a child can select.--latin, pop and disco. Perhaps it is appropriate that the Bee Gees have lent their names to this product...

Author: By Bill Mckibben, | Title: Suckerman and His Friends | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

...Inside the High Court" [Nov. 5] leaves me with the feeling that perhaps our present system of allowing the President to appoint a Chief Justice for life should be scrapped. If the President appointed the Justices, but allowed them to select their own Chief to preside over the court prior to the opening of each new session, it would at least allow the Justices to work under leadership that the majority considered competent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 3, 1979 | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

...November 1, 1948, "In a hopeless battle, (Truman) stayed game to the end, and is going down fighting." And on November 16, 1968: Nixon "will probably wind up Vietnam pretty quickly." Occasionally, however, Strout springs some real clairvoyance. In January 1968, he not only says the GOP will select Nixon, but predicts he will offer a secret plan to end the war inexpensively. Right on the money...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Eight White Houses | 11/30/1979 | See Source »

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