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Despite these gloomy omens, the government tried to ramrod through Parliament five controversial bills-among them a measure nationalizing the country's ship and aircraft building industries-that the country's powerful labor unions had demanded as a quid pro quo for voluntarily helping to keep wage increases down. All the bills had been passed once before by the Commons and sent on to the Tory-dominated House of Lords. Unable to throw out the bills, the Lords nonetheless tacked on more than 100 crippling amendments and sent them back to the Commons...
...outlines the basis for the need to reform undergraduate education, noting correctly that many facets of the program, especially the Gen. Ed. requirements, seem to have little meaning or purpose. His call for a "constructive debate on the issues, not merely a battle between those who favor the status quo and those who oppose it," is a welcome one. Considering the unnecessary wariness and pettiness of the Harvard faculty and the opposition it has expressed not only to specific changes but to the discussion of important issues of education in general, such a call is extremely important...
...more than another. We had some problems with advance work on the road. But we all made a good effort. In the last ten days of the campaign, I felt like the real differences in the two men started to come through. Ford was very safe, maintaining the status quo, not rocking the boat. Carter [conveyed] the feeling that he's going to try some things [and be] bolder in his approach to problems. I think we did so well because there is a willingness to take a risk, because [people] want a change...
Rosovsky says he expects his letter will be controversial, however, because its general presentation of the task force considerations will initiate a "debate of the issues between those who favor the status quo and those who oppose...
Rosovsky deals with the task force's recommendations--though only in general terms--in order to initiate "a constructive debate of the issues (when they finally come up before the Faculty), not merely a battle between those who favor the status quo and those who oppose it," the letter states...