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Although some federal bureaucrats view Bok and his effective, hard-driving core of government relations experts as arrogant, self-serving and patronizing--trying to have their cake, federal funds, and eat it, too--others see it as a defense of vital academic principles. And everyone agrees that, after Bok decided to develop an office of government affairs, he did it very well, developing what Lyman and Washington experts call "the most effective staff in this country...
Taber was assisted by Reporter-Researchers Charles Alexander and Robert Grieves, who helped to pin down such fine points as the cost of gasoline in Bulgaria, the distribution of wealth envisioned in Plato's Republic, and whether Marie Antoinette really did say, "Let them eat cake" (she did not). Says Alexander: "Happily, we had to reach out of our accustomed economic niche to become students of history, literature and philosophy." Last week TIME opened its first bureau on mainland China since our office in Shanghai was closed in September 1949, four months after the city was taken over...
...economic policy. His government decontrolled many basic prices, including those of bread, which had been regulated since the let-them-eat-cake days...
...lightweight crew coach Peter Raymond baked a cake but forgot to put the icing...
...students had little trouble gaining access to Massachusetts Hall, but a battallion of secretaries blocked them from seeing the birthday boy. No, they were told, they could not hand-deliver the cake. Disappointed, they trio left the cake with a birthday card and returned to the dorm...