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CAREER PLANS: Drum Major for Notre Dame Band...
...heated" talks. But the tough-minded South Vietnamese President dug in against the proposal for a three-part council composed of Communists, Thieu loyalists and "neutrals." It would arrange elections, which Thieu fears would lead to a gradual Communist takeover or at least a new constitution that would effectively drum his narrowly based regime out of power. Fighting back in a two-hour TV address last week, Thieu denounced the plan as "a cunning scheme" of the Communists. Later on he threw up more flak in the form of a proposal for a United Nations-supervised vote to choose members...
...been selected to observe the motorcade from within spitting range of the Presidential limousine. Although I did not actually see the events with my own eyes, I know that Nixon left his limousine to autograph a football for a Midget Football team in Mamaroneck; to greet a drum majorette just outside White Plains; to place a wreath at a cemetary in Eastchester; to receive a gold key to the Village of Tuckahoe. I know that the President's motorcade covered a 50 mile route in three-and-a-half hours; that Captain William Keith of the New York State Police...
This year, the story goes, Germany was ripe for recognition (Thomas Mann, in 1929, was the last German citizen to win). The other colorable candidate was Gunter Grass, author of the savage satire, The Tin Drum. Böll's triumph may well be due to a line in Alfred Nobel's will that recommends that the award go to writers of "idealistic tendency." Deep compassion for the ordinary man abounds in Böll's books...
...last quarter, despite the fact that Harvard was pushing people around (or so the paper said the next day), was spent watching the Harvard drum bearers trying to abscond with the Cornell cheerleaders. The cheerleaders were willing and the crowd roared. Trevor watched with interest as the band ogled the cheerleaders. "Why do they do it?" he asked, this time to no one in particular "Because this is Harvard," his roommate answered with disgust...