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...Sorensen comes yet another, My Life with Caroline and John-John, the chatty monologue of Maud Shaw, who was the Kennedys' faithful English nanny for seven years. She retired last spring, vowing that "my experiences are better kept to myself," but soon changed her mind. Despite "discreet" objections by Jacqueline Kennedy, her recollections began in the December Ladies' Home Journal. There are some homey anecdotes, such as the one about President Kennedy asking her when she was going to trim John-John's long hair. "What could I say?" she writes. "I couldn't say that...
...action on the offense and defense before Yovicsin adopted the platoon system this season, have been boosted for offensive duties against Princeton Saturday. With Leo sidelined, the experts figure one of the two safeties will fill in. Yovvy isn't talking. The protagonists aren't quite so discreet...
...Voltaire and Racine. Since the war, it has been a matter of grave concern that the international community no longer shares this high regard. Gone are the days when Tolstoy's Russian aristocrats conversed and the Congress of Vienna convened-in French. Today France is waging a discreet campaign to reinstate-or, as one exhortation puts it, "maintain"-la langue française as an international tongue...
...arrests and the new "lodging" statute brought the matter to Radcliffe's attention. "There's been no scandal," one president told an off-campus House. "The college only wants to remind you to be discreet and careful. Radcliffe asumes that its students are responsible our permissive rules prove that. But girls sometimes forget there exist statutes determined by people less liberal than the college administration." The head resident in, one of the co-operative Houses last night speculated at a Cliffie arrested under the "fornication" statute could expect legal aid from the college but would find Radcliffe "anxious to hush...
...discreet endorsement of the United Nations tucked into Pope John XXIII's 1963 encyclical Pacem in Terris was a tip-off that Rome foresaw fruitful cooperation with the U.N. in a common goal: peace. Last year Pope Paul VI tightened the link by sending a tactful monsignor to the U.N. as the Vatican's official observer. Last week, just as the serious turn of war between India and Pakistan heightened Paul's worries over man killing man, the Vatican announced that Paul will go to New York on Oct. 4 and make a plea for peace before...