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...year ends. Pessimists have a point when they refer to the new excrescences of television ego-talk. But optimists are not wrong when they find clearer days on Capitol Hill and a tonic absence of Viet Nam euphemisms and campus-v.-cops rhetoric. "Things are improving," says TV Pundit Edwin Newman (A Civil Tongue): "Schools are finally doing what they ought to do, teaching the basic English that we have neglected for too long. But," he admits, "the headmaster at one school recently told his faculty, 'There should always be something ongoing going on.' So we can hardly...
...back to New York from the Panama Canal Zone, Nation Associate Editor Edwin Warner stopped in Houston to attend the National Women's Conference. "I had just been exposed to the clash of ideologies over the Panama Canal Treaty," he explains, "and I thought that the controversy in Houston might be even more exhilarating. I also thought that men would be in some disfavor in Houston that weekend, but I decided to go anyway." Warner, who wrote a major portion of our cover story this week on the state of the women's movement, did not run into...
Normally, Santa Fe, N. Mex., Judge Edwin Felter spends his days dealing with burglaries, muggings and an occasional divorce case. But this month Felter's courtroom has become center stage for more than 200 top corporate, international and antitrust lawyers. By a quirk of jurisdiction, Felter is presiding over one of the largest and most complex corporate lawsuits ever filed in an American court-a $2 billion-plus action by a New Mexico uranium mining company, United Nuclear Corp., against General Atomic Co., a 50%-owned subsidiary of Gulf Oil Corp., for fraud, coercion and breaches of the nation...
Tall, thin, bearded Principal Edwin Barker is popular with students and community alike. "He does a good job walking the tightrope of an innovative school system and a conservative backlash," observes one parent. Says Barker: "I'm a believer in basic skills, but I want to do it in a humanitarian environment." Discipline is fairly loose. Barker downplays such issues as drugs (ditch weed, the crude local variety of marijuana, is common), discipline, smoking and leaving school without permission. "We have a lot of people coming and going," admits Barker. "Keeping them in school is not one of our high...
Soon disabused of Mother Russia, he clung to a half-baked Marxism that served his sociopathy. Later he would contrive to stretch his ideology to encompass Kennedy and right-wing General Edwin Walker as targets for assassination...