Word: mistakenness
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Dixon relies solely on visual impact; he makes no attempt to out-Milhous Comedian David Frye, an uncanny mimic. Dixon is often mistaken for Nixon on the street, and though he has never been introduced to the President, he did meet Julie Eisenhower in Washington recently. Says Dixon: "She reminded me of my own 22-year-old daughter Kathy." Well, of course...
There is another more substantial caveat. Despite the mistaken impression of the press and the University, the equal admissions bill would actually not have affected Harvard's undergraduate admissions at all. Staff members of the House Special Education Subcommittee insist that the equal admissions requirement was written to exempt all schools that are nominally still one sex institutions, including Harvard and Radcliffe. In supposing a federal challenge to its admissions policies where none existed. Harvard has damaged unnecessarily the chances for equal admissions progress at other colleges whose leaders may not share Mr. Bok's intention of moving voluntarily toward...
Before Agnew flew home at the weekend, Papadopoulos' spokesmen let it be known that Nixon would prevent any cutoff in aid, and that there had been no unseemly discussion of Greece's "internal political situation." Vice-presidential aides said in private that the Greek version was mistaken, but Agnew himself told accompanying newsmen that continued military aid to Greece is "a matter of overriding importance to the U.S." He also assured them that Papadopoulos "intends to return his country to representative government." There was no clear sign when that day would come, however, or that Spiro Agnew...
...sanctity of human life--including the life of the yet unborn. For, surely, the unborn have rights also, recognized in law, recognized even in principles expounded by the United Nations."). Our Gang goes on to fantasize an in-the-streets revolt by the nation's Boy Scouts in the mistaken belief that their President has come out in favor of sexual intercourse, an Administration maneuver to blame the popular unrest on a defected baseball player, a military invasion of Denmark, the liberation of "Hamlet's Castle," the destruction of Copenhagen. Richard Nixon's assasination (he's found naked...
Blaine has been a controversial figure ever since he opposed the extension of parietal hours in 1963. "I urged the College to keep male and female undergraduates separated after dark, which in the long-run, I think, was a mistaken view," he said. Six years later, Blaine wrote an article in the Herald-Traveler analyzing hard core student revolutionaries...