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Correspondent Mary Cronin, reporting her first British gen eral election, marveled at the intensity of the four-week campaign, an eye-flick in duration compared with the marathon U.S presidential quadrennial. "One day," Cronin says, "we caught up with Labor Leader Michael Foot at noon industrial Midlands. In the next four hours, he dropped in at local party headquarters, gave speeches at shopping centers, talked to a university students' gathering and held a press conference, all followed by a speech that night in Coventry and a radio interview...
Despite Thatcher's lead, the four-week campaign, coming at a time of record postwar unemployment of 13.6%, promises to be the most volatile and divisive in decades. Foot's reception in industrial centers such as Glasgow and Liverpool heartened Labor strategists. When he took aim at one of Thatcher's strongest electoral assets, the memory of her conduct of the Falklands war, by accusing her of "exploiting the deaths of young men who died in the Falklands," he drew thunderous applause. "Get her out, Michael!" shouted a young worker in Blackburn. Predicted Labor M.P. Eric Heffer...
...came. She wore. She conquered. Triumphantly, Diana, Princess of Wales, 21, turned the four-week, 15,000-mile royal tour of Australia into one long fashion show-cum-mixer. Last week, with plenty of fresh outfits at the ready, Diana, with Prince Charles, 34, and ten-month-old Prince William, proceeded to New Zealand, but not before the princess gave Australia a little something to remember her by. At a royal ball at Melbourne's Hilton hotel, she stopped conversation dead by making her entrance in a shimmery, ice-gray gown cut daringly deep across one shoulder. At Auckland...
Stephen M. Bernardi '52, secretary to the Law faculty, said yesterday that the new system will be modified. The four-week placement season will be pushed forward two weeks...
...rather than revert to the old seven-week system, the Placement Committee' decided last Friday to stay with the four-week schedule. "The feeling was that the seven week interviewing process had taken over the fall semester," Bernardi explained...