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Amid all the good fellowship that Jimmy Carter enjoyed last week when he attended a town meeting in Clinton, Mass., there was one discordant note. The President was greeted by a full-page ad in the Clinton daily Item urging him to save the American shoe industry by imposing stiff tariffs and quotas on imports. Earlier in the week, the Government's independent International Trade Commission, which is already on record in favor of protecting the shoemakers, had called for tight curbs on U.S. imports of sugar and color-television sets as well. "The protectionist heat is on," said...
...creation of a senior fellowship program for "accomplished and influential scholars" in the field...
Williams said the institute's activities now include only a dissertation fellowship program and the sponsorship of two research associates...
...good to be back," exclaimed the most famous member of the Yale Law School class of 1941. Visiting the university campus on a three-day Chubb Fellowship, Gerald Ford talked with students about politics and public affairs. One of his regrets as President, he said, was his refusal to meet exiled Soviet Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn in July 1975, a decision that he maintained was a matter of "logistics" rather than policy. Ford emotionally embraced retired Football Coach Raymond ("Ducky") Pond, 74, who in 1935 hired Ford as his $2,400-a-year assistant, thereby enabling him to study law. Football...
...epigrams: "Yet, Linus, thou layest hold on all thou meetest; none can thy clutches miss; but with thy frozen mouth all Rome dost kiss." The early Christians obeyed St. Paul's injunction to "greet one another with a holy kiss" until the symbol of fellowship degenerated sometimes into sexual scandal. In the Middle Ages, knights kissed before doing battle, just as boxers touch gloves. The varieties of kisses are numerous: the kiss of treachery (Judas' example), the Mafia kiss of death, the kiss of reverence with which rabbis don their tallithim and priests their stoles. Children hold...