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...Faculty responded with laughter at what was a purposefully amusing comparison. Mansfield, remembering the examples, chuckles about them even now. But under the humorous veneer, Mansfield was trying to ask a serious question; he believes strongly that affirmative action leads to injustices like the one he described. The Faculty did not pick up on Mansfield's question, though, and he says he came away from that meeting unsatisfied because his contentions were not addressed...
Jackie Torrence, originally out of Granite Quarry, N.C., gives Appalachian Mountain tales her own Earth Mother Afro twist. Eyes rolling, hands fluttering, laughter spilling up and over, she can jolly an audience as nobody else. But watch out for the little sting afterward! Uncle Remus is not safe in her company. When she turns into a frog, warning of the approach of Br'er Rabbit, lily pads a mile away tremble at Torrence's harrumph...
...problems back home, the normally abrasive Thatcher was unusually restrained and at one session was tactfully helpful. After Schmidt had attacked Reagan's policies, Thatcher looked at the President, her ideological ally, and said soothingly: "Oh, that's all right. Helmut's just being provocative." The laughter, joined in by Schmidt, ended a tense moment...
Haig's ideas of the world rise to the surface in bursts of singular intensity, punctuated by his high-pitched laughter. A few days ago, the Secretary devoured a filet with the gusto of a field commander and downed a good claret with the finesse of an ambassador; he concluded that his foreign policy was in pretty good shape but admitted that his Washington policy needed some repairs. He sees the Soviets as even more concerned than the U.S. about nuclear war. The creaking and groaning heard round the world (nowhere louder than in Washington) as the U.S. changes...
...years on three different networks. It won high ratings for CBS and ABC, and a higher profile for its star. It provided thrills, laughter and tears. But last week, after a chaotic three-year run on NBC, The Fred Silverman Show was canceled. Silverman, 43, resigned as president of NBC when his new boss, RCA Chairman Thornton Bradshaw, 63, refused to guarantee him a free hand. Fred's successor: Grant Tinker, 55, whose MTM Enterprises has produced such classy fare as Mary Tyler Moore, Rhoda, Lou Grant and NBC's own Hill Street Blues. Says TV Consultant Mike...