Word: chancellor
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Mixing sociology with aspects of market research, The American Intellectual Elite substitutes too many measurements for the men and women it purports to study. Chancellor of the New School Harry Gideonese put more life into the subject when he casually defined an intellectual as "a person living articulately beyond his intellectual means -if he lives within his intellectual means, he is a scholar." "R.Z. Sheppard...
...President. Ford also pocketed a diplomatic IOU by agreeing to hold talks late next month with Japan's politically embattled Premier Kakuei Tanaka, who feels he can score points at home by negotiating with the new President. Ford extended a similar invitation to West Germany's new Chancellor, Helmut Schmidt, who plans to come to Washington when the United Nations General Assembly opens next month. The Chief Executive invited Greece's new civilian Premier, Constantine Caramanlis, to visit Washington to discuss the Cyprus crisis, but the Premier decided it would be unwise to leave Athens "at this...
...request, the crew of technicians was kept to a bare minimum; no aides, friends or family members were in the room to share his disgrace. There were no precedents at all in American history-and no exact precedents in world history, the resignation of West Germany's Chancellor Willy Brandt being perhaps the closest recent parallel-for the sort of speech that Nixon, a head of state departing under a cloud, was about to make...
...carping disappeared on succeeding days. CBS Newsmen Walter Cronkite, Bruce Morton and Mudd kept largely out of sight while committee members concluded their opening statements on Thursday. NBC's John Chancellor and Carl Stern (a law-school graduate) helped clarify Friday's complex procedural wrangles as the committee hammered out acceptable articles of impeachment. Sessions were not interrupted by commercials (a condition decreed by the House); interviews in the meeting room were forbidden. PBS conducted scholarly post-mortems on each session, drawing on outside experts and a battery of law professors...
Still, Beate may win in the end. She is likely to get probation if she promises to stop breaking the law. Lischka's future is bleaker. The trial, and Giscard's friendship with West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, may have built up enough pressure to force the Bundestag to ratify a treaty it has sat on for three years. The treaty would permit the retrial in German courts of some 300 war criminals convicted in absentia by the French, including Lischka...