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Baker said yesterday that President Nixon hoped that the Council would present new ways of running the government. "We'll be like a management consulting firm that is asked by a business to review procedures and recommend alternative approaches," Baker said...
...urging of George Romney, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Nixon three weeks ago appointed a task force to recommend remedies. Last week's action is aimed at increasing timber output from federal lands by about 10%, but the Administration clearly regards that as only a stopgap. Testifying at a Senate hearing, Romney last week warned that spiraling lumber prices jeopardize the goal of raising residential construction to 2,600,000 units a year under the Housing Act of 1968. The former auto executive and Michigan Governor criticized Democrat Robert Weaver, his predecessor at HUD, for failing...
Therefore, we petition the Committee on Educational Policy to recommend to the Faculty that the grading requirement be removed from our course. Further, we ask for a public hearing with the C.E.P. concerning our petition and the general role of grades at Harvard. We would like to raise at the point the arguments for the complete elimination of grades from the Harvard educational process...
Real dispute may arise over the recommendation for abolishing grades. Most departments appear willing to change courses in a token gesture toward relaxing student-faculty relations, yet there is widespread support for the "C+ is still a plus better than C" theory. An English department study committee will probably recommend one new non-graded course for next year, but chairman Warren G. Bloomfield is typical in insisting that "customers who but our graduate students need a grade criterion to judge students that general criticisms don't provide...
...Federal Trade Commission is delving into the various economic implications of the conglomerate trend. Antitrust subcommittees in both the Senate and House plan probing inquiries of their own. The Justice Department is studying whether to recommend broader antitrust legislation to cope with conglomerates. Paradoxically, the trend has been fostered by Government antitrust barriers against mergers within the same field. More and more firms with little in common are getting together because it is the only legally safe way to merge...