Word: geoffrey
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...colleges around the country. The purpose, says Executive Director Laszlo Csorba, 22, is to ensure "balance and a livelier classroom discussion." As it is, charges the A.I.A., some 10,000 Marxist professors are imposing their views on American students. But to academics like University of Chicago Law Professor Geoffrey Stone, the A.I.A.'s work amounts to "ideological espionage." Frank Vandiver, president of Texas A&M, has warned, "One never knows who is being assaulted in this kind of spying. Nothing can ruin a university faster than fear...
...being produced. Much of it is aimed at preschool-age children, who are largely ignored by mass-audience TV. The publishers of Golden Books have begun releasing video versions of their children's stories on 30-minute cassettes. Toys-R-Us, the nationwide toy chain, is now selling the Geoffrey Alphabet Video, which features National Geographic animal footage and original songs by Elizabeth Swados. Preschoolers can exercise and play along with Gymboree, an interactive cassette from Scholastic-Lorimar Home Video. Harried mothers can enliven a youngster's birthday celebration with Rainbow Brite's It's Your Birthday Party...
...Geoffrey Worrell, a former San Francisco English teacher who has been working at Store 24 for two months, said that the store's combination of small aisles, large numbers of customers and few employees make shoplifting easy. He added that he hasn't yet caught anybody...
...arrived from Baghdad on Monday for his session at Hussein's Al Nadwa Palace. He had reason for anxiety. Hussein was infuriated by the Achille Lauro hijacking. The King was even more irked by the collapse of an Oct. 14 meeting in London between British Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe and two P.L.O. representatives, one of whom scuttled the session by refusing to acknowledge Israel's right to exist...
Arafat suffered a different blow to his credibility on Monday in London. There, British Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe announced the cancellation of a planned meeting between himself and a joint Jordanian-P.L.O. delegation, the first such meeting ever scheduled between P.L.O. representatives and a member of the British government. If the meeting had taken place as planned, it would have given a new measure of authority to the P.L.O. as the legitimate voice for Palestinian interests in the Middle East. Even though Arafat was not one of the P.L.O. representatives invited to attend, the gathering, if successful, would...