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...Confronted with a trying situation, in which even the appearance of undue self-assertion might have seemed a grabbing for power, Nixon conducted himself with poise and modesty, presided at Cabinet meetings from his customary chair instead of from the President's. When he had to confer with Cabinet officers, he went to their offices instead of asking them...
...Russia). In the past decade, three-quarters of the rise has gone to public campuses, which last year enrolled 58% of all U.S. college students. In 1970 they may enroll 65%, and in Western states already enroll up to 96%. This year state colleges and universities will confer 55% of all undergraduate degrees, 60% of masters' degrees and 54% of doctorates. The U.S. academic economy has clearly shifted to the public sector...
...their budgets by line-to-line scrutiny. Tempers flew. Already restive at being weakly administered by three different agencies, the state colleges in 1958 demanded Cal's kind of constitutional fiscal autonomy (which only six other state universities in the U.S. enjoy). They also demanded the right to confer doctorates-and to be universities...
Having kneaded the same sort of upper crust in four books before this one. Author Auchincloss seems unaware that his people are increasingly dull anachronisms. Hi; careful, courtly prose almost manages to confer dignity, but in the end his novel is like the great Newport mansions it recalls -elaborately ornamented in its facade too dry and dusty inside for a modern generation to bother about...
...Johnson moved westward toward Los Angeles, he kept trying to fight Kennedy's phenomenal bandwagon propaganda. At his press conference at the Chicago airport, Johnson pounced on Bobby Kennedy's prediction that the outcome would be decided by noon Monday, five hours before the convention's official opening. "This will come as a great surprise to the delegates," rumbled Johnson. "Most of them thought they were going to Los Angeles to confer with their fellow Democrats to help select the next President." In San Francisco, his last stop before Los Angeles, Johnson noted derisively that Kennedy first-ballot delegate claims...