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According to one sardonic French saying, half the riders in the Paris Metro wear the Legion of Honor while the other half have applied for the medal. More than most people, the French love to get awards, and last week, at annual awards ceremonies, medal mania was in full swing. The country's most prestigious decoration, the Legion of Honor, was given to 1,500 men and women, including venerable (77) Film Director Rene Clair and Feminist Writer Louise Weiss, as well as a pop singer, a swimming champion, a truck driver and a physical-education teacher in Brazzaville...
...mention the dogs, and what dogs they are! If science still needs proof that "dumb" animals are able to communicate with one another, let science come to Harvard Yard. For what other explanation can there be for the scroungy but lovable legion of mutts, thoroughbreds and scarcely recognizable quadrupeds that populate the sacred grove? Word of mouth (or muzzle) is the only possible answer. The canine message seems to have reached every indigent hound in New England: "If you're looking for friends, shelter and stimulating company, Harvard's the place." And, except for their rather cavalier attitude toward...
There are signs that even local interest in such forays is lessening as the ritual has become so repetitive. Ford did not draw a full house at the American Legion convention in the Minneapolis Convention Center last month...
Fervent Desire. From Des Moines, Ford flew on to Minneapolis, put on an American Legion cap and defended his foreign policy before the legionnaires' annual convention. Some 12 hours after attacks on his policy by Ronald Reagan and George Wallace at the VFW convention in Los Angeles, Ford emphasized that "Détente means a fervent desire for peace, but not peace at any price. It means the preservation of fundamental American principles, not their sacrifice. It means moderate and restrained behavior between two superpowers, not a license to fish in troubled waters...
Both Washington and Moscow took public note of the escalating tensions in Portugal last week. At the American Legion convention in Minneapolis, President Ford declared that détente "is not a license to fish in troubled waters" and that the Portuguese must solve their problems "in an atmosphere free from the pressures of outside interests." Studiously ignoring the Kremlin's substantial aid to Portuguese Communists,* Pravda charged that "NATO interests" and "reactionary forces" were meddling in Portugal and called for solidarity with Cunhal's Communists...