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...These days she keeps her highly praised ear for dialogue in tune through the 2,000 letters that she receives each month from youthful admirers. Asked one twelve-year-old: "Do you write your books from your mind, or do you use a kit?" Blume hardly needs a blueprint. Says she: "I don't have a teen-age audience in mind when I write. I try to get inside the mind and skin of a kid, and let the book find its own audience." One nine-year-old requested, "Please send me the facts of life in number order...
...city manager's three-page blueprint, which would establish a cooperative job placement and training program run by the city and developers, lacks too many key provisions, Sullivan said...
Still, the Thatcher government's problems paled in comparison with those facing Argentina. In an editorial, the independent Buenos Aires daily La Prensa published what it described as a blueprint for recovery. "We must accept the lessons of experience and rid ourselves of this crisis," the paper said. "A regime must be created by which governments can act without having to obtain approval of military organizations." Argentina last week seemed a long way from accepting that courageous advice...
...while the basic purpose is pastoral, even more than in Britain the political landscape is dotted with opportunities for trouble. "The Pope's visit could weigh heavily in peace negotiations," La Prensa, the leading daily in Buenos Aires, warned last week. Though John Paul carried no blueprint-only a desire for the two sides to stop shooting and start talking-he could confront a nation in a foul mood, reeling from a bloody and climactic Falklands defeat at the hands of Britain, the country the Pope had just passed through. Moreover, Argentina is a Catholic nation that...
...members, they have assured the existence of organs (like the ACSR) through which students can seek change within the Harvard system. If that system ceases to allow the modicum of student influence it does now, April 1972 may cease to be just a dim memory--and instead become a blueprint for a new generation of activists...