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...fire. On Wednesday night, after ten rounds landed in the Marines' compound, they fired six 155-mm howitzer shells at a target in the hills. On Thursday, as the shelling continued, the Americans responded with artillery fire and with four shells from a 5-in. gun aboard the Bowen, a U.S. frigate stationed off the Lebanese coast. The naval fire was aimed at a Druze artillery base near the mountain village of Shimlan, to the southeast of the airport...
That democracy remains in office; the custom of the sharpened axiom continues. Elizabeth Bowen's "Memory is the editor of one's sense of life" is a Shakespearean perception; Peter De Vries' "Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign that something is eating us" belongs with the best of the Edwardians. Hannah Arendt's observation compresses the century down to a sentence: "Power and violence are opposites; where one rules absolutely, the other is absent...
During the second stage of the program, students spend six weeks living on the campus so as to experience both an intense academic curriculum and life on a college campus. Out of the students who participate in the program, 98 percent go on to college, Bowen says...
Both graduate programs are open to undergraduates. Bowen says that Upward Bound tutors include College as well as Ed School students, and Julia R. Gordon '85, chairman of PBH's Community Action and Legal Services committee, says undergrads help out at PLAP and other law school programs. And a new PBH committee on the homeless helped Divinity School students run a shelter in the basement of a local church this winter for some of Cambridge's many street dwellers...
Elliott fell in love with politics along with the rest of his town when popular local physician Otis "Doc" Bowen ran for governor in 1972. Bowen swept into office with the Nixon landslide that year, and sixth grader Elliott was captivated by the furor: "The whole community was just thrust into a political frenzy for months. It was exceedingly exciting, not just politically, but in a very personal way... We attended umpteen political rallies and speeches, with the TV cameras and lights and everything... Somewhere in the campaign, I became involved in the whole process, became an avid Republican...