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...Houston led Haider to hand-pick Jamieson to succeed him as Jersey president when Haider became chairman in 1965. Jamieson says that he was surprised. "I had never worked for the parent company," he recalls. "I came in over the heads of an awful lot of people." Just be fore his elevation, Jamieson was the most junior of nine Jersey vice presidents. "I guess you could say it's a tribute to the people who work with this company that they were willing to pick a foreigner to head...
...there is a hollow ring to Harvard's argument. Why has Harvard suddenly leaped into the fore in defending minority students? Harvard's position has not always been so emphatic. The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, for example, admitted a grand total of eight black students to this year's class. At the same time, Harvard continually argues that it cannot hire more qualified black faculty members until there are more blacks with Ph.D.s. And Harvard went through three affirmative action plans before having its marginal one approved...
Then American ingenuity came to the fore, the ingenuity of Henry Ford and John d. Rockefeller, and produced the Boilmakers of Purdue, the Battling Bishops of Ohio Wesleyan, the Waves of Pepperdine, the Green Wave of Tulane and the Red Wave of Troy State...
Germi indicts not only monolithic Italian marriage laws-most of the movie consists of flashbacks to the period be fore divorce became legal in Italy-but also marriage itself. The trouble with it, according to Germi, is mostly women. That is the trouble with the movie, too, in a way. It is constructed around a sour, myopic kind of misogyny, not quite deft or witty enough to cut through the un pleasant taste of bile...
...would-be assassins are a cartel of cliches: a loudmouthed, cigar-chomping Westerner, an unctuous Middle European, a fatherly Ivy League type. The movie makes their plot a matter of as much concern and surprise as whether Pearl White will be cut loose from the railroad ties be fore the locomotive flattens...