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Warm Applause. The instigator of the conference was Algerian President Houari Boumedienne, who urged creation of a "union of raw-materials-producing countries" that could sock home the message that henceforth those nations "insist on being masters in their own houses." He was greeted by warm applause from Third World delegates, who disregarded the fact that their poor nations are being hurt much worse than the industrialized countries by the rise in oil prices. Boumedienne appeared to be trying, all too successfully, to distract attention from that fact and undercut U.S. efforts to weld oil-burning nations into a bloc...
...semi-political: the next week, Harvard students swelled the ranks of the 100 demonstrators against a ban on elevator riding at the Chandler School for Women in Boston, chanting, "We want dogs!" John U. Monro '34, the dean of Students, announced that students' "mere presence" at such demonstrations would henceforth be considered a "serious breach of discipline," and police-rejected the Civil Rights Coordinating Committee's request for a picketing permit for later in the week...
...change; two abstentions and four absent), the trustees declared that many homosexuals show no signs of psychopathology, are satisfied with their sexual preferences, and can function effectively in society. It therefore seemed inappropriate to call them "sick." Those who are troubled by their homosexuality, the board said, would henceforth be described as suffering from a "sexual-orientation disturbance...
Last year the Agnelli Foundation and a number of other donors in Italy provided additional funds for the purposes of the De Bosis endowment. This generous gift has made possible the welcome appointment of Professor Prodi of Bologna this semester. Henceforth, the Committee hopes to be able to invite a lecturer on some aspect of Italian civilization every year. Myron P. Gilmore Professor of History
...Audubon had been exposed as a forger or the American eagle reclassified as a turkey vulture. In fact, the American Ornithologists' Union, the Vatican of bird watching, has come perilously close to such heresy. A pronunciamento in the A.O.U. magazine Auk stripped the Baltimore oriole of its name; henceforth Icterus galbula will be known by the prosaic name "northern oriole." A dozen other busted species include the European teal (to green-winged teal), Audubon's warbler and the myrtle warbler (to yellow-rumped warbler), the red-shafted, yellow-shafted and gilded flicker (to common flicker), the slate-colored...