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...more flamboyant political leaders of Latin America-the Fidel Castros, the Che Guevaras-are familiar to the point of cartoonist's cliches. But what does the ordinary North American citizen and/or reader know of Latin American cultural leaders? For instance: Octavio Paz, Mexico's foremost poet and essayist-hardly a North American household name...
Football was an obsession of the end-of-the-century Crimson, but it did not take up every minute of an editor's time. Indeed, the foremost worry of the post-merger paper was a much simpler one--survival. The balance sheet of November, 1883, reported a deficit of $600. For the previous year, the combined balance sheet of the Herald and Crimson had shown liabilities of $3,527,95, and assets of $2,743,43. That winter, an editor recalled. "The advisability of stopping the paper was discussed." But, by June. The Daily Crimson had a surplus...
...talent-in their little fingers, as well as their other fingers and wrists. Dr. Christoph Wagner, 41, a member of the Max Planck Institute of Work Physiology in Dortmund, has conducted tests on 160 violinists and as many pianists over a three-year period. His conclusion: instrumental virtuosity comes foremost from dexterity and pliancy in the joints of the lower arms and fingers...
WHEN JOHN T. DUNLOP is not keeping watch over the Faculty of Arts and Science, he wings his way around the country mediating labor management disputes. Dunlop in considered the nation's foremost labor theoretician and negotiator. Last Spring, when teaching fellows irate because of an abruptly announced change in financial aid policy formed the Graduate Student and Teaching Fellow Union, they anticipated sparring with a canny and skilled adversary...
...planning to tighten organization. John Ehrlichman's domestic council will be restructured, because it has been too much of a burden for one man. Ehrlichman himself is not in disfavor, but under a new setup, additional White House aides will be recruited to oversee the bureaucracy. Foremost among them is Frederic Malek, 35, a West Point and Harvard Business School graduate who was recruited by Finch to help run HEW, subsequently moved into the Interior Department to clean out Walter Hickel's supporters, and more recently served as the deputy director of the Committee for the Re-Election...