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...outside world has tended to notice Hinckley Township, Ohio, only during the annual celebration of Buzzard Day on March 15, when the homely scavengers flap back to town just as swallows home in on Capistrano. But this summer the northeast Ohio community of 5,000 has a more urgent claim on public curiosity: the case of the missing police chief...
Wanda: So Ferraro is the only one who's wrong, is that it, Ralph? You don't suppose this whole flap is being blown out of proportion to keep her from running for the Senate...
...kinds of insularities bred by the walls around us, and they can be noticed in the causes we espouse and in the attitudes that color the way we conduct our lives. The most salient example is the soap-box posturing that now passes for campus politics. The Engelhard Library flap, the controvers over the McCloy fellowships. South Africa investments recent history at Harvard is littered with the remnants of feel good politicking that leaves little to show for itself except the staking out of a position for which one has no responsibility. (And the Crimson editorial page cannot be wholly...
...only other precelebration flap involved Nancy Reagan's wardrobe. In an interview two weeks ago the First Lady had dismissed as "ridiculous" a rumor that her new Inaugural dresses and accessories would cost as much as $25,000. Checking out that flat disclaimer, Washington Post Fashion Writer Nina Hyde discovered it was true in an unexpected sense: if purchased at retail, the Inaugural wardrobe would cost about $46,000. Hyde carefully pointed out that the First Lady's favorite designers are often just too happy for Nancy to showcase their creations and thus sell to her at a discount...
...flap erupted last Friday, when a Boston Globe article quoted two Harvard officials criticizing Mayor Flynn's office for attempting to arrange a Boston appearance for the bishop on the same day he was scheduled to speak at Harvard. News Office stafler Marvin Hightower accused a Flynn aide of "deceiving" Tutu into believing Harvard had okayed a Fancuil Hall appearance and or trying to "steal the thunder" from the scheduled campus visit. Dr. S. Allen Counter, director of the Harvard Foundation which had invited Tutu to Harvard, complained that it would "interfere" with the campus visit if Tutu spoke...