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Peckinpah himself likes to hunt game, "not for sport," but skinning and eat ing his catch. He has also been known to end an argument by using his fists, even against women. Disputes with producers and colleagues earned him such a reputation for cantankerousness that the big studios finally boycotted him for seven years. Peckinpah's enemies describe him as "weird" and "dictatorial," but he doesn't seem to mind. "I'm not a fascist," he says, "but I am something of a totalitarian...
...came myself." The stocky former army chief of staff, a Pathan who came to power in 1 969 when widespread strikes and dis orders forced President Ayub Khan to step down, showed his quick temper last week during an impromptu speech at a late-night dinner in Islamabad. Lash ing out at Indira Gandhi, he said at one point: "If that woman thinks she will cow me, I refuse to take it. If she wants a war, I'll fight...
...displayed his regret that he has never been accorded a public homage in Italy." But what kind of homage for Hoboken-born Frank Sinatra (whose father was born in Catania)? A bust seemed to be the answer, until somebody remembered a national law that forbids statues of liv-ing persons. Catania will probably say it with flowers instead-by dedicating a Sinatra floral zone in the public gardens and giving Frank honorary citizenship-and with a festa and TV cameras and maybe even with Frank...
...assistance and cooperation from many people throughout the University. I would like to see this continue and suggest the possibility of issuing some sort of Bursar's card to Upward Bound students to facilitate recognition and acceptance within the University community. 3) With regard to our students "never see(ing) Harvard" in the summer; last summer we chose to run our program at the Walnut Hill School. All other summers we have operated on the Harvard campus...
Nixon conceded that the Justice Department would have to appeal Judge Roberts' decision, because the Supreme Court had upheld the principle of bus ing in a decision last April involving schools in North Carolina, Georgia and Alabama. But, he said, the Government would no longer argue for the HEW plan; instead, it would seek a compromise. Nixon also instructed Richardson to submit an amendment to prohibit use of funds from his $1.5 billion Emergency School Assistance Act for busing...