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...Harvard Law Forum had originally invited Shockley and Innis to debate on October 26 but then withdrew its invitation in response to pressure from members of the Law School faculty and the Harvard Black Students Association...
...approved by the government. The country's main problem, the fighting in its African colonies, was a forbidden topic, and an opposition campaign meeting was quickly broken up when a candidate dared to mention "this unjust war." Calling the whole process a fraud, the opposition withdrew from the contest five days before the voting and urged its supporters to boycott the polls. However justified, that action assured the Caetano government, whose victory was never in doubt, that there would not be even the smallest voice of dissent in the puppet parliament...
Both Mullins and Walsh said that one difficulty in recruiting women is that any new member of the force must take the most undesirable shifts because of their lack of seniority. Mullins said that two women withdrew their applications because of these conditions...
...million package is the biggest project involving Americans to be started in Egypt since 1956, when John Foster Dulles, then Secretary of State, withdrew an offer of U.S. aid for the Aswan High Dam. Appropriately enough, it was arranged by an Egyptian-born Lebanese: reddish-haired, bespectacled Roger Tamraz, 34, a Harvard Business School graduate who heads Kidder, Peabody's Mideast office. He plucked the contract from a consortium of 16 European firms that had signed a preliminary agreement to build the pipeline in 1971. Says Tamraz: "It was straight out of the golden age of merchant banking, before...
Following Brown's Thomas, finishing sixth, came the rest of the Harvard eleven: Dick Skinner, Karl Tsigdinos, Jim Springate, Bill Muller, Fred Linsk and Bill Okerman. McCurdy withdrew Jeff Brokaw before the meet because of a minor injury...