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...understand how Jews have gotten to the point of supporting a situation which is prejudicial to Jewish interests, we have to resort for a moment to the history of the Jews at American universities. Fortunately, Professor Seymour Martin Lipset has done a study on the subject of Jewish academics, which was published in the American Jewish Year Book of 1971. In it we read, and I quote, "Important private universities had quotas as limiting the number of Jewish undergraduates until the end of World War II and relatively few Jews were able to secure employment on the faculty of these...
...boycott seems to lose momentum, the McCauleys worry that truancy charges may be brought against the children. "We feel like there's a gun in our back," protests Mrs. McCauley. They say they would never resort to violence to block busing. But, predicts McCauley, "after the Guard leaves, all hell is going to break loose...
These reports are sporadic and they can not reflect the complete truth about the situation in Cambodia. If they are true, these actions must be condemned. The new government of Cambodia may have to resort to strong measures against a few to gain democratic socialism for all Cambodians. And we support the United Front in the pursuit of its presently stated goals...
What Shanker did was to resort to demagoguery. He predicted that the school board's budget cuts of $300 million would make New York City's schools "far and away the worst in the entire United States." Classrooms would be packed with as many as 45 pupils, causing "many youngsters to explode, throwing their classes into chaos, vandalizing their schools or assaulting their classmates." Finally, he stated that "any parent who possibly can will now leave the city"−a warning that could only do more harm to the image of a city already in deep trouble...
...Flying Author Erica Jong of her first bedding with a Columbia University sophomore. "I don't remember it being painful or bad," she disclosed, "nor do I remember the earth moving." Columnist Art Buchwald succumbed to the charms of a 30-year-old chambermaid at the Long Island resort where he worked one summer. He was 15 at the time, said Buchwald, "and I think she seduced me." Comedienne Joan Rivers spent $42 on a brand new dress for the big event. "The whole thing lasted about a minute and a half," she reported, "including buying the dress." Actor...