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...Soviet Chinese agent (TIME, Feb. 4). That alleged bit of espionage intensified an already lengthy campaign of anti-Soviet propaganda by Peking's press on every subject from Russia's economic assistance ("plunder") to disarmament ("a swindle") to Moscow's policies in Southeast Asia ("a fond dream of building a greater Russian empire...
Rosovsky said he no longer sees a consensus among educators and students regarding the goals of undergraduate education. Liberal education has lost much of its meaning at Harvard, Rosovsky says, as General Education courses often merge with departmental offerings. Rosovsky is fond of asking audiences, "Should tap-dancing be given credit?" and answering that "we have lost the capacity to answer such questions because we have no criteria to do so." Within two years the new Redbook committee, he says, should try to reach a new consensus about what undergraduate education should be. Like its predecessor, the new committee...
...state's symbol is a raging razorback, and J. William Fulbright is an owl in gabardine. Though they did not profess to understand him very well or to endorse many of his views, the voters of Arkansas had for 30 years been sending Bill Fulbright to Washington. Like fond, if slightly baffled parents, they took pride in the national and global attention he won as the Senate's foremost authority on foreign affairs...
...some degree, the parents are spared because they continue to see the boys as boys. There are ready, fond and funny reminiscences of their scampish escapades. But on another level, too much planning and sacrifice have been invested in making the boys proper successes to admit baffling failure...
...only way to learn the retailing business is over the counter," Philip M. Hawley is fond of saying. Hawley, 48, first practiced what he now preaches while dishing up sundaes behind the counter of his Portland, Ore., ice-cream store. Now, as president of Broadway-Hale Stores, Inc., he directs a retailing empire that includes Neiman-Marcus, Bergdorf Goodman, Holt, Renfrew, Capwell's, The Emporium, Weinstock's and the Walden Book...