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...Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn, the man who helped devise the controversial designated-hitter rule, has worked up another idea to give new punch to the old game. He wants umpires to take a cooler attitude toward the heated attacks of players and managers who dissent from a call. Free and open discussion, says Kuhn, is "the American way." Though Kuhn has not yet specified what indignities short of an uppercut should now be endured in the name of free speech, the new permissiveness might help revive the declining art of umpire baiting. Take the case of Cincinnati Reds Manager Sparky...
...particular American who arouses strong but disparate feelings in Europe is Richard Nixon. In England, he is regarded in official quarters with almost unqualified admiration for his rapprochements with China and the Soviet Union. The popular feeling, though, is considerably cooler: one recent poll showed that 65% of the British public disapproved of his handling of the Viet Nam War. Italians admire Nixon's pragmatism, a quality notably lacking in their own politicians. Germans like his political finesse, but sometimes wonder about his dedication to the Atlantic Alliance, and hence to their security. In France, Nixon's policy...
Fortunately, tempers are cooler on the equally important issue of crafting a new world monetary system. Shultz reports that in the wake of the latest financial crisis, foreign moneymen are showing more interest than ever before in lasting monetary reform. They had better; the world right now lacks any coherent monetary system. The old system of fixed values tied to a dollar that in turn was tied to a supposedly "immutable" price in gold was destroyed by the 1971 dollar devaluation. Since then, devaluations, revaluations and floats have been coming with dizzying rapidity. The new flexibility is by no means...
...Faculty unable to break away from the fears of a bygone era, to catch up with the cooler reassessments of the students they teach, did not vote equal representation for students on the CRR. So how can anyone presume that the same Faculty will go a step further to allow students alone to judge other students...
...Hollywood to make a series of six stunning pictures in five years, including The Wild One, On the Waterfront and Julius Caesar. This was the Brando who in the 1950s struck one of the keynotes of a generation with his romantic outlaw swagger, who influenced a whole school of cooler, more introspective actors like James Dean, Paul Newman and Montgomery Clift, and whose blue-jeaned, motorcycle-riding contempt for the clan rituals of Hollywood signaled the end of the star system as it had flourished till then...