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...Harvard Radical Union, composed of over 70 graduate students and teaching fellows, met last night to discuss problems of radical teaching at Harvard and to lay the groundwork for the future unionization of all graduate students...
Classified files that have been judiciously leaked to the press would seem to indicate that the groundwork for LOVE was laid last summer in response to the high Neilson rating enjoyed by the Senate Watergate hearings. The agency was tentatively dubbed the Government Office of Depravity (GOD), but this was changed in late August for fear of alienating the crucial religious vote in the 1974 elections to the League of Official Vice (LOV). After the Agnew debacle "Extortion" was added to the name to emphasize its inclusion in the new federal program...
...rapidly growing interest and activity in brain research parallels an energetic, worldwide investigation of genetics that preceded James Watson and Francis Crick's 1953 discovery of the structure of the DNA molecule. Indeed, many outstanding biochemists and microbiologists who helped lay the groundwork for that monumental breakthrough have recognized that the brain now represents science's greatest challenge. Some have announced their conversion to neuroscience, the discipline that deals with the brain and nervous system. The work of the neuroscientists has already produced an exponential increase in man's understanding of the brain-and a good...
Indeed, Notestein was a pioneer and her achievements enduring; under the 1947 concordat for which she laid the groundwork, Radcliffe women were first admitted to the same classes attended by Harvard students. From the founding of Radcliffe in 1891 until the merger, the College had hired Harvard instructors to repeat their classes at Radcliffe...
...unity rhetoric could be converted to energy, the Community would undoubtedly be self-sufficient. European diplomats insist that this time the drive toward unity is serious. The Foreign Ministers said in Copenhagen last week that the heads-of-government summit will "lay the groundwork for significant cooperation in matters of foreign policy ..." The problem with these promises is that they have been made before. The summits of '69 and '72 were supposed to lay similar groundwork, but precious little changed...