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Stoeckel, who last year filled the post of liaison between the admissions office and the athletic department, will continue in that capacity and take on expanded duties. He also keeps his position as assistant coach of the successful Crimson baseball squad...
...success. We have seen excesses splashed across front pages and sports pages nationwide, and as the University expands its ambitions in certain athletic endeavors--indeed, just tries to keep up with other Ivy schools--the dangers of recruiting are not far from any Crimson follower's mind. Stoeckel, as liaison between admissions and athletics, has perhaps the crucial role in assuring that Harvard treads the tightrope well--without falling into the abyss of excess. Yale president Bart Giamatti, no doubt, will have one eye cocked toward Cambridge after his speech calling for deemphasis of recruiting...
...imminent Senate hearings began in January 1978, when an Atlanta businessman, Mario Leanza, visited the Grand Hotel Excelsior in Catania, Sicily. There Leanza met Michele Papa, an Italian who had formed a Sicilian-Libyan Friendship Association. Papa had been told by Ahmed Shahati, head of Libya's foreign liaison office in Tripoli, that Gaddafi respected the tough American oilmen he had met, wanted to do more business with the U.S., and change Libya's image in America -and get his hands on those C-130s. During the Carter Administration, the Libyans had also been unable to get delivery...
...last week named William Timmons as his political director. Though Timmons has worked for Reagan's G.O.P. rivals in past presidential races, he was selected because of his close ties to the party's moderate wing and because he had served effec -tively as a White House liaison with Congress. Timmons has been running a successful lobbying operation in Washington that, along with work for other major cli ents, helped Chrysler get its loan guarantee. In command of the campaign's 20 regional directors and 50 state chairmen, Timmons will be responsible for allocating money...
...Women who are satisfied with. . .light and easily broken ties. . .do not act as I have done," wrote Novelist George Eliot of her 24-year, live-in liaison with another woman's husband. "They obtain what they desire and are still invited to dinner." However, Eliot suffered for her devotion to Writer Henry Lewes. Not only was the author of Middlemarch scorned at many a Victorian's table, but she was denied her final desire: burial in Westminster Abbey's Poets' Corner, where writers from Chaucer to the Brontës have a monument or tomb...