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...Cassandras today who perceive the painful parallels between Jimmy Carter and the much-maligned Mr. Nixon. Humorless and ambitious, highly sensitive to negative press coverage, Carter emerges an ironic product of the Watergate mentality. He and his counterparts appear bereft of all commitment. They are masters of ad hoc politics, practitioners of a winning "master plan...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Black Students' Association has formed an ad hoc committee to raise money for use by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in a Mississippi law suit brought against the civil rights organization...
Union officials could not be reached for comment on the new wage proposal last night. However, members of "Students in a Vise," an ad hoc student group supporting the workers, said last night that a vote on the proposal could come as soon as the end of next week...
Last year vocal Mather House students convinced University officials that the students shouldered an unfair share of the crowding within the House system. An ad hoc CHUL subcommittee studied the situation during the summer and eased that burden by shifting 20 students from Mather to other Houses...
Southern cuisine is an imprecise, ad hoc art that relies largely on instinct (a little of this, a little of that), memory (Mama said "Salt later") and the availability of ingredients (okra, salad greens, fresh shrimp). It is further complicated by the fact that many great Southern cooks have traditionally been black women who spurned the written word or, for that matter, any kind of regulation. The celebrated Mme. Bouligny, one of the last grandes dames of New Orleans society, had a Haitian cook who seasoned her gumbo with a voodoo prayer. "Getting directions from colored cooks," Harriet Ross Colquitt...