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Students working on the new constitution, while aware that they stand to gain little official "power," still believe that centralization and the independent budget of the new council will enable it to marshal and publicize students' opinions. "Harvard is a very decentralized place, and the funding of the council will allow us to buy the publicity necessary to make students aware," Herrmann says. And Dowling concurs, adding, "No one can steamroll by strong, unified student opinion. I think that's real power--it's the same type of power the Faculty Council...
...team of 27 undercover agents blanketed the area and waited for Boyce to show his face. When he finally did, they found a rifle, two wigs and false sideburns in his car trunk, signs of life on the run and possibly bank robbing. Says Robert Christman, chief deputy U.S. marshal in Seattle: "He became cocky. He made a lot of mistakes...
...what a magical box and what an enchanting drawing room! Here, he conducts words as if they were grace notes from Mozart or thunderclaps from Wagner. He leads the dance of ideas as if it were a minuet of the mind. He deploys conflicting personalities like a field marshal and has them lob paradoxes at each other as if they were hand grenades...
...father lived in the White House, publicity-shy Steve Ford preferred to make his home on the range and his living by rodeo riding. But the silver screen beckoned a couple of years ago, and Ford got a chance to saddle up with Rod Steiger as a U.S. deputy marshal in a western movie called Cattle Annie and Little Britches. Now Ford, 25, has signed on full time for a CBS daytime soap, The Young and the Restless. This time he plays a nightclub bartender who woos a stripper, played by comely Melody Thomas. Says Ford: "Melody...
Individual Congressmen were stroked too. Oklahoma Republican Mickey Edwards reminded the White House that he had proposed a candidate to be appointed a U.S. marshal in his state, and Massachusetts Republican Silvio Conte brought up the name of his choice for an Agriculture Department post. Both were assured that their requests were all but approved. Administration strategists even decided to say nothing about their stand on extension of the 1965 Voting Rights Act until a budget bill was on Reagan's desk to be signed into law. That issue had little to do with federal spending, of course...