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...lost points among undergraduates, and generally failed to establish popularity with them, because of what some described as his distant and overly officious approach to his position. He dealt closely only with a few undergraduates, such as student government delegates. Many students who confronted him with problems about Harvard, in particular some minority group leaders and those dealt a short hand by the Administrative Board, typically said he was less than fully receptive to breaking either College precedent or his own Puritanical sense of right and wrong...
...unlike at the College, where a controversial Vietnam War-era committee is still conducting hearings on undergraduate participants, it appeared that law students would return this fall with the sit-in and warnings only a distant memory...
Poof! Like magic, Bailyn is no longer "arrogant and condescending," as one-fourth of students in one of his courses described him. Now, he's "somewhat distant and rather firm in his opinions...
...after day, network crews restlessly peer down from their perch in the Santa Ynez Mountains, looking for photo opportunities at the adobe ranch buildings three miles distant that serve as Ronald Reagan's Western White House. But thick swirls of morning fog and shimmering waves of afternoon heat obscure their camera view, and the subject stays half hidden in the shade...
...warhead is hardly larger than a coffee can. But jammed inside the 12-in. by 13-in. cylinder are 64 tiny rockets, eight high-powered telescopes and a targeting device so sensitive that it can detect the warmth of a distant star...