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...outlawed political parties four months later. Torrijos had encouraged political debate on the treaties in order to counter suspicions in the U.S. that the plebiscite was rigged, and he got a bit more than he bargained for. Political dissidents took advantage of the relaxation in the atmosphere to mount criticisms of the regime that could have landed them in jail or in exile only a few months earlier. Nonetheless, what Panamanians had dubbed "the little summer of free expression" produced a clear-cut victory for Torrijos on the canal treaties. By Friday the final count...
...every American schoolchild knows, the highest mountain in North America is Alaska's Mount McKinley (elevation: 20,320 ft., a mere 8,708 ft. lower than the Himalayas' Mount Everest). But centuries before paleface cartographers gave the peak that name, Alaskan Indians, Aleuts and Eskimos called it by another: Denali, or "the Great One" in the Athabascan Indian dialect. Now native Alaskans are lobbying hard to restore the original Indian name. The state legislature has adopted a resolution to rechristen the mountain Denali, and both Governor Jay Hammond and Senator Mike Gravel are campaigning to persuade...
...total of 19 representatives will come from Barnard, Mount Holyoke, Smith Wellesley and Vassar to attend the conference, Susan Comstock '78, RUS president, said, adding that Bryn Mawr is not sending delegates for lack of transportation funds...
...House Explosives B Cabaret will be doing something quite different this weekend when it turns Pushkin's play of the same name into a spectacle. The audience will begin the play, proceeding with the actors out of the bowels of Adams House, pass hecklers on the Lampoon steps, cross Mount Auburn Street where traffic will be halted by the Harvard police and to the tower of Lowell House where Master Bossert will crown the new czar. Then, in an atmosphere perhaps even more mysterious, the silent procession of audience and actors will return, passing by candlelight through the darkened halls...
...failed idealism, followed by near-bankruptcy, has provided a political mood in the city that will accept nothing but an energetic, well-connected centrist politico, one with an aura of reform but a mind for conformity. And Koch is such a man. Clearly, anyone with the gall to mount a massive campaign against the "charisma" of the Lindsay years and the "clubhouse atmosphere" of the Beame administration--with scripts written by Lindsay's media coordinator and a drive organized by the Beame machine--has the proper air of ambitious cynicism...