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...reward was the White House appointment and, in the Administration's early days, responsibility for clearing foreign-embassy appointments-one of the choicest of patronage plums. Last month, in addition to his other jobs, he assumed the leadership of the Council on International Economic Policy, and he now meets often with the "Quadriad," the top economic policymakers of the Administration, and has the final word on any appointee to the federal regulatory agencies...
...Penn match was expected to be the most competitive challenge of the year for the Crimson, and Harvard fans had packed the choicest seats at Hemenway three hours before the play began. Both Harvard and Penn had the same men at number five that clashed last year, so the match should have been the equivalent of the previous close struggles...
Almost every campus has them: incompetent professors who cannot be fired, much less shamed into quitting. Losers by almost any academic standard, they are actually winners of academe's choicest prize: "tenure" (from the Latin tenere, meaning to hold or keep). The system has lately been lambasted by three national commissions on education, is under study at the universities of Utah and Wisconsin, and faces attack in the legislatures of eleven states. Tenure, charges John R. Silber, president of Boston University, has become "a device used by the devil to encourage faculty slothfulness...
...British Institute of Recorded Sound Ltd. has just announced it will issue exact copies of some of the choicest antiques under the His Masters Voice label; they will press directly from the original master records and will bow to modernity only by using vinyl instead of the oldfashioned, noisy-surfaced shellac. The idea has more than mere nostalgia to recommend it. Most LP transfers of 78 material change and degrade the original sound. But the new old 78s will have both unfiltered high frequencies and unrumbled lows. Hardly comparable to the sound of the LP era, they nevertheless restore...
Almost invariably, Radio Moscow saves its choicest epithets for Chairman Mao Tse-tung. One recent broadcast described his thought as "an unprincipled mixture of Utopian and egalitarian ideas of the peasants' uprising, Confucianism, anarchism, Trotskyism, chauvinism, Chinese feudalism, national bourgeois ideas and other ideas contrary to Marxist principles." Mao has been excoriated as an unsteady romantic who has sponsored a gigantic "cult of the individual...