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...years of hard labor and five of exile for "anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda." Aksyonov, Voinovich, Kopelev, Orlova and several others have been forced to live abroad. Even the erstwhile hosts have been made unwelcome. Four prominent American publishers were refused visas to the Soviet Union, and Random House Chairman Robert L. Bernstein was the target of an anti-Semitic attack in Literaturnaya Gazeta...
...Wayne County's circuit court in Detroit, which adopted the system in 1975, it works this way: every two weeks the courthouse computers spew forth a random sample of more than 1,000 names and addresses from a jury pool of 30,000 citizens. Occupational exemptions have been abolished, though brief deferrals are usually granted by telephone. The rate of excuses has been cut from 33% to .09%. Thereafter, an average of 100 prospective jurors are summoned each day, but only about 75 are asked to come to court. The others telephone to hear a prerecorded message that tells...
...opinions and to correct misperceptions about the Foundation. It's stated goal is to search for common ground among the diverse groups of people at Harvard to achieve integration and better race relations. And the danger to be avoided is the possibility of the Foundation coming to fit Random House's eighth meaning of the word "foundation"--"a cosmetic, used as a base for ... make-up."PhotoThe Harvard CrimsonS. Allen Counter has asked Alex Haley to serve as an associate of the Harvard Foundation...
City officials recently invited the University to take part in a "discussion of where Cambridge is going and how it could be improved," and Harvard has accepted, Wyatt said. "We have to protect our interests and not depend on random developments to come up with what is best for the Square," he added...
Though reviewers were usually impressed with Irving's originality and verve, the most important critic was not. Random House, his publisher, was un impressed by his sales figures. The first chapters of the author's next novel met a cool response from some house editors. There followed a familiar story: author complains that his books are not handled or promoted properly; publisher is sympathetic and hints that the writer might be happier at another house...