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...followed his strategy to hit Kennedy hard and early, Carter assailed the Senator's leadership claims in other ways last week. Declared the President at the New York town meeting: "Senator Kennedy has been in Congress 16 years. His major premise, or goal, has been to establish a comprehensive national health insurance policy for our country. He is chairman of the health subcommittee in the Senate. He's never gotten a comprehensive health bill out of his subcommittee." And by contrast, Carter could have cited one major example of his own legislative success last week: the passage...
...National University, they had little in common. Echeverria was a politician to his ringer tips, and something of a political demagogue. Lopez Portillo was an unknown technocrat and law professor who had never run for public office. The outgoing President was almost strident in his efforts to establish Mexico as a leader of the Third World. His successor appeared to be a dedicated academic, most comfortable when studying archaeology or writing a novelette (Quetzalcoatl) about Mexican history...
Mathematically, McKay's reckonings are right. But his plans to establish a thriving humstead naturally go wrong, and this is the matter of Thomas McMahon's fine, small, funny second novel. McMahon is a professor of applied mechanics and biology at Harvard. Nine years ago. he wrote Principles of American Nuclear Chemistry: A Novel. It told of a teen-age boy growing up among the scientists at Los Alamos. N. Mex., as they calculated their way toward the atomic bomb. Here the author sets his sights backward by 100 years to spoof the pre-Darwinian notion of nature...
...outranked him by several levels. Le Duc Tho's large luminous eyes only rarely revealed the fanaticism that had induced him as a boy of 16 to join the anti-French Communist guerrillas. It was our misfortune that his cause should be to break our will and to establish Hanoi's rule over
Five million dollars from the campaign will establish the Dean's Fund, a new endowment for non-departmental instruction under the auspices of Dean Rosovsky. The fund will cover programs like Expository Writing, House seminars, freshman seminars, General Education, and the new math courses under the Core...