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What seems most incredible to me about the article on the three resigning nuclear engineers is the implied aura of conspiracy with which it was suggested that the "San Jose 3" (that makes them sound like criminals) might have been "politically inspired." By what dark motivations? A "reverence for life...
Spiro had "a certain aura of being cool," says Emile Lafourcade, secretary of Spiro's fraternity. "Anyone who could drive around in a new T-Bird when everybody else was going around in '59 junk-heaps had something up on the rest...
...aura of mystery surrounds the deliberations of the committee. Wilson and other members refuse to discuss its progress. And, according to a member of another task force, the core curriculum group has virtually sequestered itself like a jury to avoid upsetting a fragile equilibrium-- at the outset, its members were split between abolishing gen ed and distribution requirements and expanding them. The task force has refused a request for a joint meeting from the concentrations committee, but Wilson says the rejection was not the result of a fear of tipping any balance. Instead, he says, "it is pointless to have...
Teng has impressive credentials as a wily politician and a pragmatic administrator. Yet he lacks the almost spiritual aura enjoyed by Mao and Chou as architects of the New China. Moreover, Teng does not enjoy a large power base of his own. His leadership depends on the approval of the aging chairman and the apparent consent of factions within the party whose often bitter quarrels were effectively stilled by Chou...
Meanwhile there was Willebrands, 66, whose labors in the Vatican had kept him untainted by the left-right warfare back home. His ecumenical record had given him a progressive aura, but as a trusted Roman cardinal he was also a Vatican insider. However, Paul hesitated to let Willebrands go on the eve of the first substantial theological talks with Eastern Orthodoxy...