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Ambassador Lodge's statements have prompted me to present to you my letters to him during the summer of 1969, to which he responded with identical form letters. On July 31, 1969, Lodge challenged his North Vietnamese counterpart on the issue of who could participate in a coalition government. Lodge said...
...organization for social change grows out of the double set of problems which Miles faces as a black college. Education at Miles confronts fundamental problems of race and social structure. Seventyfive per cent of Miles' 1200 students receive Federal poverty assistance, and the average Miles freshman--like his counterpart in most black colleges--has only ninth-grade level reading skills. "They can't dig up the money or the SAT scores to draw attention to themselves," Monro says, "and for a place like Harvard, they're totally out of reach." Furthermore, most Miles freshmen have spent 18 years...
President Bok's appointment of Harvey Brooks, dean of Engineering and Applied Physics, as Acting Dean Ford's legislative counterpart, will thrust the relatively unknown physicist into the public spotlight, a position he usually shuns...
...doubt Goncourt would have been pleased to find how durable this class of sexual object turned out to be. Pink and proletarian, tousled, complaisant and rather nitwitted, she persisted as the Ideal Mistress (counterpart to the Fatal Woman) well into the 20th century. Her ancestors are the nymphs of Boucher. Her descendant-spoiled by independence, but still embodying the fantasy of the naughty French chambermaid-is Brigitte Bardot...
...deep and abiding respect for the individual rights and prerogatives of each Senator that is both his main strength and his mam weakness. Says one colleague: "Mansfield tries to lead within the confines and strictures of this goddam institution, but we need stronger leadership." His Republican counterpart, Minority Leader Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania, has been similarly criticized. A pipe-puffing moderate, Scott can grandstand if necessary but prefers low-key methods. He and Mansfield are good friends and work well together, despite certain differences on the Administration and the Viet Nam War. Mansfield, a harsh critic of the Nixon Administration...