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...ever been accosted in the Square by a Moonie, someone who was an inconspicuous student at Boston University, or if you've ever stood transfixed as a horde of orange-robed, bald-headed gents chanting "Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna," ran by you on the street, they you've come face to face with one of the most significant, widespread, and least-understood cultural phenomena of 1970's America--personality snapping...
After four months of desultory debate, Congress last week failed to renew funding for the act, thus idling the 195 Interior Department bureaucrats and field agents who enforce it and leaving the snail darter, American bald eagle, grizzly bear and 700 other troubled creatures with near toothless federal protection. Some parties to the funding fight cited the Tellico Dam incident as cause. Concluded Keith Schreiner, the Interior Department official in charge of enforcing the act: "Congress is scared. They don't want bureaucrats to have this kind of authority...
Another Mem Hall tradition is Mr. Test When you take your first Mem Hall exam you will see him; a rotund man, his bald pate rimmed by electro-shock curly hair, a bottle of soda surgically grafted to his hand and his mellifluous bass vice oozing out of the corners of the giant mead hall in which exams are given...
...Comoros have proved an ideal laboratory for bizarre experiments in government. Since 1975 they had been ruled by quixotic Ali Soilih, 41, a bald-headed leftist who seized power shortly after the islands became independent from France. Soilih began his extraordinary career by promising socialist equality to his 300,000 poverty-stricken, racially mixed countrymen. But after deteriorating relations with France resulted in a cutoff of aid and his treasury began to run dry, Soilih tried something different. His new start amounted to government by hallucination...
Instead, there is just the lawyer for the other side. Semyonov, 67, a nearly bald veteran of 39 years in the Soviet diplomatic service, has been the chief of his delegation since the beginning of SALT in 1969. Among Americans who have dealt with him over the years, Semyonov has the reputation of being a stubborn bargainer who, if necessary, can talk any adversary under the table. He also seems to be the uncontested commissar of his own colleagues in Geneva. "We have a democratic delegation," he once remarked. Paraphrasing the famous ending of George Orwell's Animal Farm...