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Birmingham, which has worked hard to change its image as a onetime citadel of Southern segregation, does not like the publicity. Notes Mayor Richard Arrington: "A story indicating a shutdown of buses in an area of over 700,000 people cannot be viewed in any vein except a negative one." Montgomery Mayor Emory Folmar seems to be taking note: last week he urged the city council to hike bus fares from...
DIED. A.J. Cronin, 84, Scottish physician turned author whose bestselling novels include Hatter's Castle (1931), The Citadel (1937) and The Keys of the Kingdom (1941); of acute bronchitis; near Montreux, Switzerland...
Together with his previously announced appointments, the group by and large met Reagan's test of demonstrated ability and constituted an interesting mix of experience and temperament. Several of the appointees are members in good standing of the Establishment, and five even attended that citadel of Eastern elitism, Harvard: Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, Treasury Secretary Donald Regan, Attorney General William French Smith, Transportation Secretary Drew Lewis, Management and Budget Director David Stockman. A few have had Washington experience: Secretary of State Alexander Haig, Weinberger, Kirkpatrick and Watt. Others are outsiders: Secretary of Labor Raymond Donovan, Block and Edwards...
...from the Oxford dons' attentions. Of course, the Oxford Press embarked on this enterprise because there was money to be made, but the publication of the OAD does give final legitimacy to a language now even more vital and alive than the mother tongue. American English deserves celebration. Oxford, citadel of the Old World, has finally made peace with the new; the phonies probably never will...
...nine in the morning on a raw November day, Soldiers Field stretches out like a remote desert, seemingly much farther than its actual distance from the hub-bub of rush-hour Harvard Square. Inside Dillon Field House, the citadel of Crimson athletics, everything moves at a calm, leisurely pace, but the air is full of energy being stored. And under the bright lights of the training room, amid the smell of bandages, tape and salve, Jack Fadden is at work. He tapes and talks, talks and tapes, massaging his patients' bodies and minds. Jack Fadden has been doing the same...