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Monroe, La., probably has not seen so much unction since the halcyon days of Huey Long. There was smiling Tongsun Park signing autographs and granting interviews. He acted more like a Cajun politician than a disgraced influence peddler turned Government witness in the $213,000 bribery −tax evasion trial of former formidable Congressman Otto Passman, his old friend, in Passman's home town. Park even accepted an invitation to talk to 50 high school journalism students. Samples of their Q. and A.: How did he like Cajun food? Great, especially gumbo and rice. How were morals among young...
...them in their halcyon days would ever forget them: Gene Tunney, the perfectly controlled ring tactician; Bobby Hull, hockey's most explosive scorer; Bobby Orr, the greatest defenseman, graceful and creative, in hockey history. Tunney died last week at 81, and Orr retired at 30, just seven days after Hull quit at 39. They were three of sport's heroic figures. Consummate athletes, they came to be respected as much for their character as for their skills...
...WORKER discontent is more than sentimental longing for a halcyon era. Many employees feel the University puts money considerations before their welfare. And they also sense a change in the philosophy of the administration--a new willingness to use the big stick. Powers admits there has been a change in tactics, but denies that workers are being treated unfairly. "I would say there's a change in philosophy in the sense we bargain more aggressively. My job is to negotiate the kind of agreements the administration wants," Powers says. He obviously sees himself as the administration advocate, while workers...
...benighted annals of Columbia football, Saturday, September 23, 1978 will remain forever a halcyon day, as the Lions shocked Harvard, 21-19, before an opening day crowd at Harvard Stadium. The last Columbia victory in Cambridge came in 1961 when the Lions were led by a sinewy guard named Bill Campbell. Campbell returned as Columbia's head coach on Saturday to pronounce his team's win "the greatest victory I've had in my coaching career...
...industry. They only incidentally harp about class conflict and proletarian oppression. Third, the group is revolutionary. Although they despise cities, they feel a moral obligation to stay in the urban centers and fight what they construe to be the enemy. MOVE members say they will eventually head for the halcyon hills, but only after the war is won. Fourth, the group is (perhaps the past tense is now more appropriate) quasi-religious in nature. Technology sometimes becomes the devil who possesses the police and politicians who oppose MOVE...