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...unrecognized figure one morning last week, searching for the entrance to Madison Square Garden, surprised when someone greeted him in the crowd. Thomas ("Tommy the Cork") Corcoran, an F.D.R. wonder boy, was reported by the newspapers to be in New York as the escort of the convention's chairwoman, Lindy Boggs. And somebody looked around the room at a party given by Arthur Schlesinger, Roosevelt historian, Stevenson partisan and Kennedy aide, and remarked, "Ah, we have here all the best minds...
...hardball players usually press for every advantage. In Montana, where Reagan won the nonbinding primary, 65% to 35%, State Chairwoman Florence Haegen called for a proportional split of the delegates. But Reagan forces are fighting for a 20-to-0 shutdown at this weekend's convention. In Washington State, when the Reagan team narrowly won some precinct caucuses, they insisted on shutting out the Ford minority, sending only Reagan loyalists to the higher-level county sessions. In precincts that Ford carried, the losers argued that their own long service to the G.O.P. entitled them to some representation...
...small swarm of lightning bugs flickering, and the Times snuffs out most of them. Ms., for example, is to be used only in quoted material or in discussing the term itself. The stylebook decrees that some words whose original form includes man should remain unchanged: it proscribes chairwoman and spokeswoman on the grounds that chairman and spokesman suffice for both sexes, but it accepts assemblywoman and councilwoman. To "avoid words or phrases that seem to imply that the Times speaks with a purely masculine voice, viewing men as the norm," writers and editors are warned not to use "designations that...
Cronies and Aunts. Today, Kim still appears to retain absolute power. Top government and party posts are dominated by trusted old cronies and relatives. His brother sits in the Politburo, while his wife is chairwoman of the Central Committee of the Women's League. A host of nieces and aunts hold high posts in that organization. The only challenge to Kim may be health: there have been rumors that he suffers from a malignant tumor in his neck...
Nancy J. Sinsabaugh '76, chairwoman of the SAC, said yesterday that the ad hoc committee would attempt to clarify "ambiguities" in the policy of re-admitting old members and suspending normal procedure...