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...last week what was going on. Outside Reagan's home, reporters stood long vigils waiting vainly for scraps of information. When Reagan emerged from conferences with his lieutenants to attend a series of private dinners, he merely smiled away correspondents' questions. In Washington rumors and speculation buzzed louder every day, reproducing a touch of the he's-down, he's-up, he's-down-again hysteria of '30s fight broadcasters in Reagan's radio-announcing days...
Epps confusion of his role as dean with his self-appointed role as HDNS overseer not only allowed Olive to abuse the service, but also perpetuated the problems after the manager had gone. When students voiced their complaints louder than ever last spring--by demanding refunds and even suing HDNS--Epps should have responded frankly to their queries, or should have instructed Smith to do so. Instead, Epps arranged for the loans, commissioning Smith to straighten out the delivery problems, handle refunds, and make sense out of book keeping that Epps says Olive left in "complete disorganization." In doing...
...lack of understanding of domestic and world problems, and his extremist past statements, do indeed raise the specter of war and domestic divisions. Says a close presidential aide: "He is so frustrated that no one else is saying these things that he feels he has to shout all the louder...
...louder Carter has shouted, the more his staff has worried about his assaults on Reagan boomeranging. At an urgent strategy session in the Watergate apartment of Campaign Chairman Robert Strauss, five top aides agreed that Carter must tone down his rhetoric. How to persuade him was the problem. Charlie Kirbo, the President's confidant from Atlanta, was deputized to put the matter to Carter as forcefully as possible...
...fireworks were louder and more spectacular, the parade longer and the smiles larger than ever before in Cambridge as the city celebrated its 350th birthday this weekend...