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...President. Last week Baughman gave the Senate Appropriations Committee a guardsman's view of the Chief Executive's job. The President, he said, "cannot have what is considered a normal life, home or family relationship. He has no choice as to where he lives. He is a focal point for public and world attention. He is a slave to his office, being obliged to serve his country without cease at all hours and every day of the year. He can have very little privacy. If he has young children, they are largely governed by protocol and cannot enjoy...
Dubarry, speaking at the annual Pennsylvania Varsity Club dinner, said that both Athletic Director Frank Murray and head football coach George Manger will remain on their jobs. Murray and Manger are the focal points of the disagreement over the Penn athletic policy. Dubarry added that Penn will try to strengthen its Ivy ties...
Brown cited President Conant's Annual Report of two years ago. In it, Conant called for a "scheme of fellowships connected with the dramatic arts" and "the construction of a theater building to serve as a focal center...
Morris told the CRIMSON that although there has been no decision to come to Boston, the committee had discussed the possibility of taking the investigation on the road to certain "focal cities," including Philadelphia, Chicago, and Boston...
Despite his present-day pose of calm equanimity, John was once the focal point of a hot controversy. When, on Commencement Day in 1883, General Samuel J. Bridges donated a fund for the erection of a statue to John Harvard's memory, the inevitable question was raised: How does one make a statue of the chap when one doesn't know what he looks like...