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...institution significantly named the Donner Pass College for Women, the author pits a pair of middle-aged Eastern Jewish intellectual males against a covey of young Western Baptist extroverted females. To this year's Donner Pass Symposium for Distinguished Visitors come an obnoxious poet, Fox, and a weary, rueful professor, Isaiah Greene. Greene is at first charmed despite himself by the earnest and buxom simple-mindedness of the girls and their quaint collegiate rituals. What troubles him is the crassness of his odious colleague, the loudmouthed, girl-chasing...
...Along the way, he has acquired a somewhat less than convincing reputation as a swinger. Divorced from his wife in 1964, Kissinger has dated a covey of actresses, including Jill St. John, Liv Ullmann and Mario Thomas as well as TV Producer Margaret Osmer and Rockefeller Aide Nancy Maginnes. He obviously enjoys his reputation as the "playboy of the Western Wing," but he spends almost as much time with his children-Elizabeth, 15, and David, 12 -as he does on the social circuit. He also makes it clear that his work comes before anything. Of the actresses, he once remarked...
...explained his absense from the subcommittee by recalling last Spring's covey of proxy fights and disclosure resolutions. "I spent more than a quarter of my time last Spring on shareholder questions, and I just can't do that and still be able to do all of the things that are expected of me in various areas of the University," he said...
Despite a covey of ringers reported to be in the Jox lineup. Crime captain Deac "Pique" Dake was calm yesterday. "Oh, really," he muttered. "How can they expect to win when we've got an all-state quarterback, an all-state split end and God on our side...
...Pittsburgh victory. Lest it seem like luck, Hebner then helped the Pirates mop up the Giants 9-5 in the final game with a three-run homer. He also provided a vital ninth-inning out by leaping into the stands to snatch a foul ball away from a covey of overeager hometown fans. San Francisco left with the dubious distinction of being the first losing team in three years of playoffs to win so much as a single game...