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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...know an operating room better than I do. I've seen white graduates of nursing school come in to the hospital and fire these black nurses. Why? Because they will not tolerate a black knowing more than they do. Business is the same, we can never go beyond a certain stage, it would violate the system...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Struggle Ahead for Soweto | 11/1/1979 | See Source »

...Rubbish. The codes say equal pay for equal work, but there is no equal work! As soon as a black works in a certain job they give it a different title. Blacks and whites can be doing the same exact thing but the job titles will be different...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Struggle Ahead for Soweto | 11/1/1979 | See Source »

Marlow said, "there is a certain segment in Cambridge society that does not like pinball arcades." "It's not their cup of tea and they'd like to see my operation closed down," he added...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Leiman and Kenneth J. Ryan, S | Title: City Sues Under Pinball Law | 10/30/1979 | See Source »

...Much. His death last week in New York at 75 closed the page on a generation of American humorists that included Frank Sullivan, Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker and H. Allen Smith. Yet as Humorist Russell Baker observes, Perelman's work was not typically American: "His writing had a certain English fineness in it. There is a love of language and an extensive vocabulary. He is hard to type. He is sui gen eris. I plagiarize a lot but I could not steal anything from him. The best you could do is a third-rate imitation and anyone could spot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: S.J. Perelman | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

...MEANTIME the Faculty should take certain steps to improve CUE's effectiveness. For one, Whitlock should make it clear to Faculty Council members who volunteer for CUE what the commitment entails. Perhaps such a warning would discourage the Cromptons who have better things to do from joining the committee. Faculty members should also understand the issues CUE considers. McClave, for instance, says she did not speak up at the CUE discussions on the Core two years ago because she was "not well-acquainted with the Core legislation." This is incredible considering that CUE discussed nothing but the Core that year...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi, | Title: The Missing CUE | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

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