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Preseason polls showed Penn ranked seventh in the nation, while the Bruins were listed as the nation's tenth best team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Penn, Brown Tie Lions Edge Princeton, 2-0 | 10/8/1970 | See Source »

This all took about one tenth of the current length of I Will Fear No Evil, and was approximately ten times as interesting. It is obvious to most of you, from reading this capsule summation. But such is the force of Heinlein's narrative style that it takes the reader at least a week to realize that he has been sold a bill of goods...

Author: By Garrett. Epps, | Title: Sci-Fi Bobby, Bobby Heinlein, How Could You Treat Us So? | 10/3/1970 | See Source »

Last week a three-judge district court tossed out the suit. In a decision written by Chief Judge David T. Lewis of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, the court upheld the constitutionality of the Utah law and refused to intervene in the prosecutor's case against Gordon. Whether or not he is convicted, the decision makes it clear that any speaker faces arrest if he flaunts obscene words in public-at least in Utah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Surprise, Surprise: A Dirty Speech Is Illegal | 9/28/1970 | See Source »

...issue was not the only controversy in which Harvard Treasurer Bennett revealed his view of how Harvard should handle its investments. Harvard's tenth largest investment sum is placed in stock of Middle South Utilities, one of whose subsidiaries. Mississippi-Power and Light employs only 45 per cent black employees in an area where 50 per cent of the population is black. Investigations of two other Middle South subsidiaries-Arkansas Power and Light and Louisiana Power and Light-conducted by the Equal Opportunity Commission, revealed similar employment practices. One EEOC official said. in releasing the employment figures, "it is difficult...

Author: By Thomas P. Southwick, | Title: Harvard-The Divided University | 9/24/1970 | See Source »

...Market, and Italian unions are demanding that the same scales be extended to workers in the depressed south. One result: Societa Generate Semicon-duttori, the country's biggest maker of electronic components, is building a $1.3 million transistor plant in Singapore, where wage costs will be only one-tenth what they are in Italy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Global Scramble for Cheap Labor | 9/21/1970 | See Source »

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