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Five Harvard faculty members and nine M.I.T. professors-including two Nobel prize-winners-have announced their intention to withhold portions of their 1970 taxes to protest the Vietnam...
Immediate Stop. Until recently, the rebellious restlessness of women in journalism had rarely surfaced. Last summer a female sportswriter sued to gain access to the press box at a professional football game; a feature writer won the right to withhold her byline from "wives-of-famous-men" assignments. And three months ago, women staffers ousted the male hierarchy of the underground and pornographic newspaper...
Allhough the group will withhold its final recommendations until next Fall, the preliminary report will "lay out the issues, the arguments, and the alternatives" in investment policy, according to Graham T. Allison Jr... assistant professor of Government and chairman of the group...
...compromise: Nixon got a $700 million cut from $19.7 billion he had vetoed as inflationary; the Democrats in Congress ended up with $760 million more than the President had originally proposed. Actual spending will come to just over $19 billion, since Nixon was given the right to withhold 2% of the total...
...writing an edification manual for a general audience or an outraged diatribe against the Establishment. In fact, Spock speaks in a bewilderment of voices: part Dear Abby, part pop anthropology, part sex manual, part vintage Spock ("When, during toilet training, he feels cross at his mother, he may withhold the B.M."). At times, though entirely truthful, he is also relentlessly obvious: "Black people continue to be identified and barred by their color...