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French President Georges Pompidou has no plans to meet any of the 135 delegates at Orly Airport; that chore has been assigned to lackluster Premier Pierre Messmer and Foreign Minister Maurice Schumann. "Everything is being done," explained a government spokesman, "to ensure that this will be strictly a working meeting," an attitude that squares with Pompidou's crisp observation that the European Economic Community has "already drunk the champagne" of British entry...
...chore is close to completion but it has cost the campaign time. As a result it has been impossible to muster enough supporters to form a Harvard contingent for a march to tomorrow's McGovern rally at Post Office Square...
...backgrounds and aptitudes of those various students. While individual casea may have been leniently considered this year, permitting most students interested to enroll in Chem 20, the attitude of the teachers is somewhat disheartening. It is known that the need to teach Chem 20 is regarded as a "chore" and probably is resented by those chemistry faculty who see premeds as a drain on their time. This was reflected in what I felt was a harsh tone in the initial class of Chem 20. All of the students failing to meet the prerequisites as stated in the catalogue were called...
...force his sport upon his athletes, preferring to let them find the art of fencing in their own way. He instructs, but he doesn't coerce. Consequently, there is tremendous rapport on the squad that makes participation an extension of your Harvard social-life, rather than an athletic chore...
Still, McGovern will have no more difficult campaign chore than to persuade Jews to vote for him. Once a dirty word among Jews, Nixon has decidedly spruced up. If Jews have become less liberal, the President has become more so. Somewhere along the way, they may have met. "Did you ever think you'd live to see Richard Nixon having dinner with Chou En-lai?" asks Lawrence Goldberg, director of the Jewish division of the Committee for the Re-Election of the President. "This isn't the Nixon of the '50s. Jews have heard Hubert Humphrey talking...