The Yankees may have edged the Red Sox by the narrowest of margins, but Economics 10 positively crushed its nearest competition in the fall course derby, with 300 more students enrolled than in any other offering.

Brigham's restaurant abandoned its 24-hour policy, leaving the Store 24 as the last bastion for Harvard Square nighthawks.

And then there was salmonella. University Health Services "put the matter under intensive investigation," as assistant director Dr. Sholem Postel said, but cases continued to develop.

The Cambridge Biohazards Committee approved the opening of Harvard's special containment recombinant DNA laboratory, delayed since August 1976 by controversy over the safety of DNA experimentation. Harvard shelled out $600,000 to keep genes in and Cambridge City Council out--even though new federal guidelines for DNA research effectively eliminated the need for the building.

October also marked the dedication of the newly-built John F. Kennedy School of Government. President Carter and Rep. Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. (D-Mass.), although invited, missed the ceremony.

Over 5000 people did attend the dedication, however. The night before, more than 500 people watched a panel discussion on "The Changing American Presidency," which featured John Kenneth Galbraith, Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus, and David L. Halberstam '55.

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) gave a moving decication speech. But 400 people chanted throughout President Bok's speech, protesting the naming of the school's library for Charles W. Engelhard, who publicly and financially supported the South African government's apartheid policy.

Kennedy dispelled the tension by assuring the crowd he and his family would stay to hear a spokesman chosen by the demonstrators. Mark Smith '72-4, the spokesman, said "the limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress."

Harvard's other protest fizzled in October, as its kitchen workers decided to accept the University's contract offer, vetoing a strike and reversing their September vote to reject the same contract.

November

The Loeb Drama Center came under the spotlight early in the month when Robert S. Brustein, former dean of the Yale School of Drama and director of the Yale Repertory Theater, approached Harvard with a new, professionalized undergraduate program in theater.

Brustein suggested dividing the Loeb mainstage production time between the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC) and his professional repertory company--an idea cold-shouldered by an angry HRDC.

But another proposal met less resistance, as most Houses complied with the urgings of several student groups to boycott the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR). Students protested the CRR, formed in 1969 to discipline students who participated in the strikes that year, because they believed punishment for political action is unjustifiable.

November seemed to be the month for boycotts. A second one involving the Nestles Corporation and its promotion of infant formula in Third World countries inspired Dean Rosovsky to propose asking the Faculty to discuss a possible University policy on boycotts.

While some students avoided Nestles products in the dining halls, others skirted an even greater ill: salmonella. A widespread outbreak of the food poisoning disease broke out, reaching epidemic proportions by mid-month. Officials banned interhouse dining and imposed other restrictions which they relaxed later in the month as the contagion died down.