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...Harvard, vice president Stephen Hall announces that Phase III will require harsh cutbacks in facilities and personnel. Eliot House is sold to a hotel corporation and becomes the Sheraton Finley. Master Heimert, put on waivers, is picked up by Yale to be curator of their new Organic Food collection. ("Here's a man," says Kingman Brewster proudly, "who's sown his wild oats.") Senior Tutor Kevin Starr takes the vows and changes his name to Kevin Superstarr...
Neither Fecteau nor Mary Ann had harsh words for their captors, partly because they were warned not to say anything that might jeopardize the chances of the remaining American prisoners. Along with Downey, there are two airmen, Air Force Major Philip Smith and Navy Lieut. Robert Flynn, who were shot down during the Viet Nam War. When Fecteau was freed, the Chinese reduced Downey's sentence from life to five more years. But they may be reluctant to release the other Americans. They do not want to do anything more to offend their North Vietnamese allies, who are already...
...other hand, many conservatives are scornful of the operators and supporters of government benevolence; they speak of bleeding hearts who coddle people too irresponsible to carve their own living in a plentiful nation. The left-wing radicals take an equally harsh view. They feel that the entire system is so corrupt that not even the existing official machinery can correct society's ills, much less the minuscule efforts of an individual. Thus a man who, say, sponsors a ghetto child for two summer weeks in the country might be accused by the politically devoted liberal of ignoring the proper...
...rock group called the Mothers of Invention has confronted some harsh necessities in its current European tour. Replacing the instruments and equipment that were incinerated by a fire in France was bad enough. But replacing Lead Guitarist, Singer and Songsmith Frank Zappa is something else again. He will be out for three or four months with a compound leg fracture and other injuries received when an unappreciative music lover in London jumped up and threw him off the stage...
...those who speak Russian, although long E in Greek; And cockneys, like the French, agree That H is neither N nor E Nor Hate's harsh aspirate, but meek And mute as in Humanity...