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...tenure appointment--the first (and last) time it tried to intervene in a tenure decision. Several board members considered Galbraith a dangerous radical--he had been in charge of price controls during World War Two--and fought his appointment to the economics department. Galbraith treats the episode with gracious good humor, perhaps because he was never in real danger of losing the job. Detached good humor, not to mention physical detachment, often for years at a time, seems to have been his passport to almost 50 years of Cambridge gentility. Consider, for example, this passage, which is something...
...Secretary of State Alexander Haig. Thus, when President Reagan returned from Mother's Day at Camp David, he found the State Department's draft of the obligatory telegram of congratulations too stiff. Not delivered until the morning after the election, it did contain a gracious Reagan touch: "Only those who have devoted years-long dedication to winning the presidency can fully appreciate what today's reaffirmation of the democratic process in France represents." But the Administration does not quite know what Mitterrand stands for (see WORLD), and there is considerable apprehension that he may include members...
...tracksters ended their regular season in triumph over Yale in their only home meet May 2. In a decisive 77-50 victory, the Crimson continued a 14-year tradition of defeating Yale in track. However, being gracious hostesses, the Distinguished Performer Award went to a Yalie. Junior Pat Melton earned the honors by winning five events, including the long jump, the 400-meter hurdles, and the 100-yard dash...
...Borgia banquet did for casual dining. From Dallas' oily antihero J.R. Ewing on down, most businessmen on television are depicted as crooks, amoral wheeler-dealers, criminals with Mafia connections, cheats, employers of professional arsonists and, worse still, jerks, clowns and buffoons. With the exception of Margaret Pynchon, the gracious owner of the Los Angeles Tribune on Lou Grant, nowhere on prime time is there anyone remotely resembling such constructive businessmen as Joseph C. Wilson of Xerox, Edwin Land of Polaroid, Alfred P. Sloan of General Motors or Thomas Watson of IBM. Is art reflecting life? Or is art looking...
Twenty-two scarlet-uniformed Royal Canadian Mounted Police on matched chestnut horses flanked the motorcade. An exaltation of fighter jets swooped in low against a snow-flecked sky. Demonstrators on the gracious lawns of Ottawa's Parliament Hill waved signs protesting a variety of U.S. policies. With all the requisite pomp, pageantry and protest, Ronald Reagan began his first state visit, a trip to America's No. 1 trading partner. Standing before the Gothic tower of Parliament, Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau welcomed him: "Our long relationship has been based on more than neighborhood. It has been based...