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Meanwhile discord erupted at the opening of the newly elected National Assembly last week. At issue was the job of President of the Assembly-a post roughly equivalent to Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. Traditionally, the position should have gone to the chosen candidate of the Assembly's leading political party-in this case, the Gaullists, who won 25 more seats in parliament than Giscard's Union pour la Démocratic Française. Instead, there was a dramatic contest over the presidency involving Gaullist Leader Jacques Chirac and Giscard. Chirac's candidate, incumbent...
...wonders, do men stand "now that the stronger sex has escaped from the boudoir and the kitchen?" Says he: "The dainty little thing who sets your pulse racing as she trips along the street ahead of you or displays herself curvily on a beach is nature's chosen sex. She is a much more physiologically efficient arrangement than your hairy, paunchy frame." And to make matters worse, warned Barnard, artificial insemination and women's improved breadwinning ability could make the male obsolete in some sci-fi future. As the doctor sees...
...playmaker" seems to be the experienced Keith Weller from English First Division, Leicester City, chosen to represent England's National team for the past seven years...
Filippini agreed to present the petition prior to the meeting when Dean Fox told the ad hoc committee the representative they had chosen, David King '81, a member of the Committee on Housing and Undergraduate Life (CHUL), could not speak to the Faculty without being in violation of the Faculty's rules...
...Chosen 2195, who are expected to dwindle to a group of about 1600 by next fall, are not necessarily those with the highest grades or test scores. One student with a verbal Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) score of 410 will find himself accepted to Harvard next week while countless others with scores in the supersonic 700s will be turned away. The admissions committee obviously considers academic credentials and extracurricular activities, but beyond these lie even more subtle elements of the process including intangibles such as the applicant's personal qualities, Harvard's relationship with particular high schools, and the University...