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...legislation and lay it on the doorstep of the Senate. There, the House leaders hope, Democrats like Senator Kennedy, spurred on by the press and public opinion, will get the bills through. Then they would land on the desk in the Oval Office, where President Ford would face a dilemma. If he approves bills that break his budget, he risks attack from Ronald Reagan, his conservative Republican rival. But if he wins the nomination by saying no to jobs and social programs, Jerry Ford may hobble his chances of being elected in November...
...Fisher's head is in the clouds, it is because he seems much less interested in the preprofessional student and his parcel of concerns than in the angst of the student who doesn't know what he is going to do. The psychology of the mixed-up student's dilemma fascinates Fisher, who himself has flitted from one high-ranking administrative job to another in the white-collar constellation. On the eve of limited adulthood, Fisher says, these perturbed children suffer because they must narrow down their fantasies about future occupation to concrete possibility...
...that it is easier to be different now. There is a "whole expectation" that some will want to be artists, so it is "easier now to decide to write." He adds, "I would have stood out more 40 years ago." But the glib way Fisher describes the senior's dilemma hardly approaches the nightmarish depth of the experience for George McAlister...
...Special Dilemma. Graham rarely relaxes. Her legendary Georgetown parties are devoted to government and diplomatic figures, and even on her 250-acre estate on Martha's Vineyard, Washington never seems far away. Says she: "I want to win a Pulitzer Prize for management...
...strike is a special dilemma for her. Cheered by liberals for the Post's role in exposing Watergate, she is now being attacked by some liberals as a union buster. "The union is to be smashed," wrote Post Columnist Nicholas von Hoffman last week. "Graham has accepted the pressmen's union's invitation to waltz back to the industrial warfare of the 19th century...