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Robert C. Bergenheim, B.U. vice president for labor and public relations, sharply denied Friday that the administration ignored faculty rights or bent the contract. But he said that the administration is "testing" various clauses in the contract, adding that the faculty union too is testing the contract and that such a process is normal during the first year of a contract...
Henry C. Moses, dean of freshmen, will participate in another panel on advising and counseling. The panel will include representatives from Harvard's various counselling institutions...
Whether or not the various periodicals involved in the printing of articles by Charles Hansen and Howard Morland are guilty of disseminating classified information on the hydrogen bomb [Oct. 1], it would certainly seem possible to convict them of publishing obscene material. Surely nuclear holocaust and the means of bringing it about are without redeeming social value. Making such information public can serve no positive purpose...
Builders are in trouble too. On construction loans, they generally pay 2 points above the prime interest rate that banks charge their top corporate customers. That means builders are paying 16½% interest, vs. 15½% only two weeks ago. Various charges may bring the effective interest rate to a towering 20% by the end of the year. Builders will start fewer houses and charge more for them. The National Association of Home Builders figures that the average price of a new house, now $64,000, will go up $1,000 by Dec. 31, and the combination of price increases...
...difficult to tell entirely whether Mailer or various tape recorders are to be congratulated for The Executioner's Song. Mailer seems to have undertaken the project mostly for money. He never met Gilmore but acquired an immense pile of tapes from a hustler named Larry Schiller, the entrepreneur who had earlier promoted deals involving Jack Ruby, Marilyn Monroe and Susan Atkins of the Manson gang. Mailer spent additional weeks interviewing Gilmore's family, his girlfriend Nicole Barrett, and surrounding bit players...