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...Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington's Watergate complex last June. In defying Sam Ervin on this matter, the President is in collision with the most formidable Senator that this proud body could choose to lead its cause. Charming yet fearless, Ervin is the Senate's foremost authority on the Constitution, a former state supreme court justice and one of the few legislators who prefer the hard work of personal research in quiet libraries to the hurly-burly of cloakroom arm-twisting. He has, in a sense, spent much of his career preparing for precisely this kind...
...Foremost is a plan to shift the country from an agricultural to an industrial base, which recalls the program that nearly wrecked the economy when Perón was in power. To help accomplish this shift there will be greater state participation in Argentina's economic and industrial life. While nationalization of major corporations is ruled out for the present, all of private industry will be more tightly regulated than...
There are several fool-proof methods of determining precisely the arrival of spring in Cambridge. First, and foremost, is the celebrated Frisbee Factor, which, as all physics wonks know, is equal to the number of frisbees (genuine Wham-O's, no cheapie imitations allowed) that one spots floating in the Charles or caught in trees multiplied by the square root of b2 -- 2ac over 4a. If the number derived from this ridiculous, and practically useless formula is more than the number of swimming stories appearing in The Crimson during a one-week span, then spring has definitely arrived-accompanied, with...
...centering the novel on himself rather than a social issue like fear (The Indian Wants the Bronx) or racism (Morning). Cappella is an autobiography; Byron is Israel Horovitz. Both the fictional Byron and the real Horovitz were born on March 31, both have a wife and three children, and, foremost, both are authors...
...first essay in his most recent book, In the Light of History, consisted basically of what he said a year ago. In both he discussed the development of an intellectual apparatus paralleling the developing bourgeoisie that littered the 18th century English countryside. Plumb is currently the foremost historian of the period, and consequently his essays carry a good bit of authority. But it is an authority conveyed in a very light tone. And as the world suffers from no lack of authoritarians, the addition of any easy-mannered tone to its histories has to be counted as an extra asset...