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Members of the Alumni College will be staying at Lowell House. Aside from their scholarly activities, the alumni will join in a clambake at Crane's Beach and a cocktail party at Kaiser's Cambridge home...
...drunken drivers, who get away with murder. Half of all fatal accidents involve drivers who have been drinking. The U.S. would be wise to emulate the Scandinavian countries. In Sweden, police routinely stop drivers and test suspected drinkers. Anyone with more than .05% alcohol in his blood (about one cocktail or two strong beers for a 165-lb. person) is sentenced to as much as six months in jail, usually at hard labor. That is more than many a U.S. drunken driver gets for causing a serious accident...
...worst suicide risks. The accumulation of suicide theory and statistics, though, does little finally to illuminate what British Poet-Critic A. Alvarez refers to as the "shabby, confused, agonized crisis which is the common reality of suicide." And that reality does not seem an appropriate subject either for cocktail-party chatter or for purely literary exploitation. It is more like cancer, a mysterious plague that cries out not for philosophy but for a palliative...
...interim choice is 55-year-old L. Patrick Gray III, a burly former Navy captain who has been a Nixon friend since they met at a Washington cocktail party in 1947. A graduate of George Washington University Law School, he served for a time as a legislative and legal assistant to the Secretary of Defense. Gray left the Navy in 1960 and worked in Nixon's presidential campaign against J.F.K., then joined the Administration in 1969 as an executive assistant in HEW. In 1970 he moved to the Justice Department as Assistant Attorney General. Gray, who bears something...
Schlesinger struggles on a month-to-month basis to keep the New Democrat going. He relies heavily on unpaid contributors and fund-raising cocktail parties. Though the elder Schlesinger does not bankroll it, his name hardly hurts in the magazine's constant quest for operating capital. Now that McGovern rides high, the New Democrat may have an easier time making ends meet...