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...time faculty member observes that Perkins has not been even a minor participant in the few really contentious issues to galvanize the Faculty over the past 10 to 15 years. Such as the Core and earlier on the debate over the Vietnam War and the student takeover and police bust of University Hall...
...referred to his religious interests in language as elusive as the metaphors of his folk-rock anthems. Consider this recent observation: "Roots, man-check up on Elijah the prophet. He could make it rain. Isaiah the prophet, even Jeremiah, see if their brethren didn't want to bust their brains for telling it right like it is ... I ain't looking for roots in synagogues with six-pointed Egyptian stars, but, you know, it's sleepy time down south...
Jeff Michels, 21, is unquestionably America's finest amateur weightlifter, but he will not be competing in next year's Olympics. Last week the Chicago athlete had to give back three gold medals he won at the Pan American Games in Caracas, Venezuela, after the biggest drug bust in the history of international amateur sporting competition. In all, nine medalists and five additional athletes from the U.S., Canada, Cuba and other nations were disqualified because tests showed that they used anabolic steroid drugs or ephedrine stimulants, which are banned by the International Olympic Committee. After the test results...
...Week will end on Sunday when John Coolidge, 76, the President's only living son, will drive down from Plymouth Notch, Vt., the family's old home town in the Green Mountains, to Northampton. On the courthouse lawn there, John Coolidge will unveil a new gray granite bust of his father, the tardy fulfillment of a memorial first promised in 1934. The sculptor is Frank Gaylord II of Barre, Vt., whose pantheon includes William Penn, John Kennedy, Arthur Fiedler and Martin Luther King...
...Christmas Eve for a joint plea for peace in Viet Nam. In the muted elegance of the Pope's library, Johnson gave the Pope a present. Reynolds watched as His Holiness unwrapped the gift, lifted it carefully from its packing, then stood nose to nose with a plastic bust of L.B.J. "Am I seeing what I think I'm seeing?" Reynolds asked, grinning from ear to ear at the marvel of it all. Had Reynolds been around for his own funeral services, he surely would have displayed the same amusement and asked the same question: "Am I seeing...