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...while the council has managed to appease Harvard's mammoth bureaucracy, it demonstrates an unconscionable--even frightening--lack of understanding of what it means to represent the student body. Any controversial issue--like the Anti-Finals Club Resolution that was voted on last night--throws the council into a frenzy of self-doubt, confusion, and terror over misrepresenting the students...
...long as she can remember, Gwen Linde wanted to be a pilot. At Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, Calif., Linde, 29, is commander of a C-141 transport plane, a mammoth, 75-ton, four-engine workhorse that carries everything from weapons, paratroopers and medical supplies to Bob Hope and his entourage. Leading a crew of six, Linde routinely carries out five-day missions to bases in Hawaii, Guam and the Azores. Her dream, however, is to fly the fighter jets that she once trained others to operate. But since those elite birds are designated for combat, women have been...
Merle Miller, who died shortly after finishing this mammoth book last year, achieved his greatest success with his oral biographies of Presidents Truman and Johnson. He obviously knows a good story, and he admires his hero. Though a number of Eisenhower's fellow commanders in World War II regarded him mainly as an international "board chairman," Miller, himself a combat correspondent for Yank, sees Eisenhower as a consummate politician and diplomat whose mixture of heartiness, cunning and charm helped hold together a fragile military coalition. "He was most complex," Miller writes. "Dwight Eisenhower could and did outsmart, outthink, outmaneuver, outgovern...
...most people. To a bond trader, lower unemployment means faster growth, more inflation and higher interest rates. So bond prices slumped, and that triggered a drop in stocks. Investors were also concerned because the dollar started dipping again on Friday and because they feared that Government figures on the mammoth U.S. trade deficit due for release this week would show little or no reduction...
...Brown, just getting off a shot has been a mammoth task. This year, the Bruins are outshot something like 40-20 each game...