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As Commissioner of Education, he named former Scarsdale Schools Superintendent Harold Howe II, 48, a skillful administrator whose choice reflects Gardner's lifelong crusade for better education. The ultimate purpose of education can move this ascetic, unflappable man to evangelistic fervor. "The idea of individual fulfillment within a framework...
A tireless and meticulous worker, he often spends all day receiving visitors, then works far into the night to catch up on his backlog of paper work. His ascetic self-discipline and brilliance as a back-room negotiator have put him in firm command of his party and won him...
"A poet is more than a poet in Russia," Yevtushenko has explained. "Here only he is destined to be a poet/ In whom civil sense ferments to passion." With deepest sympathy for Yevtushenko's position as de facto laureate of Russia, it must be objected that to be more...
The only undergraduate prose in the issue is by Thomas Fallaw. His long story "We are These Witnesses" may demand greater interest in jazz and Protestant liturgy than all readers can provide. Fallaw gives us exhaustive and often confusing detail: "I go under his arm over my head;" "rising and...
The Unbowing Bosses. Another casualty was Home Minister Gulzarilat Nanda. Indira Gandhi has been under so much criticism in recent weeks for fail ing to take stern measures against In dia's growing wave of rioting that she realized it was time to take decisive action. So, out went...