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...Jeff Goldblum's line in "The Big Chill": "There's sex going on here. I feel it." Or something like that. Anyway, just as the Big Chill house was abuzz with bumping and grinding, the Harvard campus these days is alive with a similar, but less exciting, fever--elections. The final clubs are electing a fresh class of members. The newspapers and choosing their next executive boards. And, in a move that affects only a handful of select undergrads, Harvard's Phi Beta Kappa chapter is elevating another few brains to its ranks. November is Election month at Harvard. Here...
...year of anti-incumbent fever, female candidates had an appeal that went beyond gender loyalty. Where women voters read "role model," males read "outsider." There was a general expectation that women would be more ethical, less taken by perks and pomp and more likely to view things from the supermarket-counter level. This, in fact, had been the suffragists' dream: that women would use their innate "mother sense" to bring sweetness and light to the smoke-filled back rooms...
Even mighty IBM has caught the fever. The world's largest computer maker was slow to respond to the rounds of price cutting this summer, and as a result its share of the personal-computer market slipped precipitously. But Big Blue's freshly restructured PC division showed a new nimbleness last week. The day after Compaq's latest price cut, IBM unveiled its long-awaited PS/ ValuePoint series: a line of desktop computers aimed at high-volume corporate buyers and priced to sell for less than comparable Compaq machines -- in one case, exactly $5 less...
Most all groups of conventioneers here appeared to have caught the fever--from journalists to volunteers and from youngsters to the elder contingent...
...scramble for the new Administration's 3,000 appointed jobs has already reached a fever pitch -- as has the inevitable speculation about candidates for the plum posts. For Defense Secretary, there is talk of a three-way race between House Armed Services Committee chairman Les Aspin, Oklahoma Congressman Dave McCurdy and Senate Armed Services Committee chairman Sam Nunn. Retiring Colorado Senator Tim Wirth has been dubbed a possible Secretary of the Interior or Energy. Among the dozen or so names mentioned for Secretary of State, the leading candidate seems to be Warren Christopher, deputy secretary in the Carter Administration...