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WASHINGTON, D.C.: Continuing his defense that he hasn't done anything i llegal, and, anyway, we really need to reform the campaign finance system, President Bill Clinton turned to broadcasters for a way out, arguing that candidates would not face such financial pressures if they had free TV airtime. "Free time for candidates can help free our democracy from the grip of big money," Clinton told reporters at the National Press Club. Although it's an idea that has been floating around for years, the President hopes to use the proposal to spur debate on financ e reform, while also...
Trouble began after a mixer one evening last March, when she and a male cadet, whom she loyally refused to identify-he apparently was her financé, Mark Lewis, 22, a senior from Las Vegas-went to bed in her dorm room. Most colleges officially frown on student sex on campus but handle the matter by looking the other way. Not so the Merchant Marine Academy, which classifies copulation in the barracks as conduct unbecoming and worthy of dismissal...
...retired USIA Foreign Service officer who knew Ambassador and Mrs. James Conant well in Bonn, I question the reference [March 16] to that charming and effective lady as his erstwhile "financée." Does that term reflect your reviewer's appraisal of her worth as an individual . . . or to the Ambassador? Or did your pencil slip...
...long before he was married, 27-year-old James Bryant Conant confessed to his financée that he had three ambitions. The first was to become the leading organic chemist in the U.S. "After that," he said, "I would like to be president of Harvard; and after that, a Cabinet member, perhaps Secretary of the Interior...
...half-fare ticket to Stevenson, Iowa. She wants to escape Manhattan mashers like Robert Benchley. Unsuspecting Major Philip Kirby (Ray Milland) protects her from highly suspicious trainmen, takes her to spend a howling few days at the Wallace Military Institute. There are love complications with the Major's financée Pamela (Rita Johnson), who wants to keep him out of active service, and with her sister Lucy (Diana Lynn), a cold-eved little biologist, who wants to get him in. Ginger helps Lucy...