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...participate in a short work-shop or cooperative experience with a government agency. The school's active faculty includes some of the luminaries of the Cambridge-Washington shuttle: Allison, John T. Dunlop, Lamont University Professor, and Richard E. Neustadt, professor of Government. Adjunct lecturers, including Massachusetts State Rep. Barney Frank and former CIA employee Robert T. Kiley, chairman of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, are brought in for substantive teaching roles. The Kennedy School's Institute of Politics offers several programs and study groups on the more political side of government...
...Carter Country, a rural police station in the Deep South comes up looking like a country-fried version of Barney Miller stuffed with crackers. ("Would you press my dress uniform?" one redneck cop asks a policewoman. "I don't do sheets," she answers.) In its other entries, ABC takes to the sea: The San Pedro Beach Bums are five California boys on a rundown boat; Operation Petticoat, based on the old Gary Grant flick, unites a crew of sailors on a pink submarine and a contingent of bosomy nurses-war is swell, apparently. And in The Love Boat, Gavin...
...after he was sworn into office on July 21. A smart and ambitious moderate Democrat, he has firsthand knowledge of the highflying financial world in which Lance made his fortune. An economics graduate of Syracuse University ('50), Heimann started with the Wall Street investment house of Smith, Barney & Co., promising to quit in two years if he could not create new business in the virgin field of advising labor unions on investing pension funds. "Nothing happened for a year and three-quarters," he recalled. "I worked terribly hard, saw everybody, but nothing happened. Then AFTRA [American Federation of Television...
...were bound to lose their jobs in the November 1978 election. For example, two liberal Boston representatives, who are longtime friends, will be pitted against each other in Boston's new Back Bay-Beacon Hill district: Elaine Noble, 33, the first avowed lesbian in a state assembly, and Barney Frank, 37, a colorful and outspoken leader of the party's liberal wing. Outraged incumbents called Keverian a "butcher" and a "stooge." Keverian conceded that his plan involved not so much punishing dissidents as remembering loyalists, but defended it as a fair...
...little girl leaves her playroom, the camera dwells on the dolls left behind: Raggedy Ann, Barney Beanbag, Susie Pincushion and the rest. There is a shimmer of music, the photography dissolves to animation, the dolls come alive and begin talking to one another-surely a child's fantasy about what dolls do behind closed doors. Later, when the little girl returns, the dolls resume their still-life poses, and the animation dissolves back to reality...