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...Europeans, the increase in overkill capacity is an irrational act, an absurdity," says Fritz Stern, provost and a professor of history at Columbia University...
Before 200 union members, Fritz K. Ringer, chief negotiator for the B.U. chapter of the American Association of University Professors, said there remain four unsettled items in the proposed package: salary increases, fringe benefits, merit-granting procedures, and chapter membership rights...
...Koch, 56, New York mayor, debating over which Democratic candidate he will support in 1984 for the presidency: "If I support Ted Kennedy, there would be cruises, jet-set parties and long, lazy summers at Hyannis Port. If I were to support Fritz Mondale, there would be winter in Minnesota. It's a tough choice...
...these aren't the only crew members who have gotten together since Mexico City. Three of the '68 oarsmen--Hoffman, Livingston and Fritz Hobbs--row each year in the Head of the Charles with their boatmates from the 1972 Olympic silver-medal winning crew. Known as "Free-wheeling Frankie," Hobbs graduated from the B-School in 1972 and now works on Wall Street...
Fans will still find enough vestiges of the former Reinhart: his sententious liberalism is undiminished; his antique Midwestern vocabulary ("hen fruit," "on the fritz") is intact; and if his optimism is a bit white at the temples, it still goads him on. But Reinhart ultimately comes to believe that life's meaning can be boiled down to the profound couplet: "Nothin' says lovin'/ Like something from the oven." The transformation has affected his creator as well. The tortuous and arcane language Berger displayed in Neighbors has been effectively streamlined. It now breaks for self-examination...