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Stories about the gods and goddesses who collect full salaries abound and for the most part I understand that they must be left to their mountain-top citadels. But the graduate students who are made to preside over so much of the undergraduate education at Harvard ought to be asked by responsible academic administrators to reform. Many are perhaps competent. But how can we tell unless they take the time to plan their work carefully; unless they read the material they teach with intelligence, so that they themselves can contribute something, instead of pushing off their work onto students most...
...biggest employer in the county is the "Tiki" mines: Martiki, Pontiki and Toptiki. The mines are all owned by Mapco, a Tulsa. Okia energy firm, which traditionally names all its mining operations after the Polynesian good-luck "Tiki" dolls. Martiki is the second largest mountain-top strip mine in the United States and therefore probably the world, shipping almost 3 million tons of coal each year. Martiki officials are clearly proud of their operation and sincere in their excitement at the prospect of resulting the landscape. Martiki's 18,000 acres cover two mountains on opposite sides of a steep...
Jimmy Carter also boarded a Marine Corps Huey, but on the lawn of the White House. He too took off for a mountain-top retreat, and for his last Thanksgiving as President. Rosalynn, Amy, Jeff and his wife Annette, and Annette's parents, Mr. and Mrs. G.C. Davis Jr., joined the President at Camp David. He had taken along his cross-country skis in case there was snow, but he was disappointed. He made a few phone calls, one to his mother, still recuperating in Georgia from a broken hip, and another to Connecticut Governor Ella Grasso...
...introduction to the school's program--as a member of the Bateson trip four years ago--came at a three-day intensive "sensitivity session" at a mountain-top retreat on Hawaii's main island of Oahu. The Esalen Institute sent its leading counselor from California to help the 30 students of the school draw closer together, to form a cohesive bumper against the shocks of the different cultures the group would be moving through and living within...
Died. Otto Skorzeny, 67, audacious Nazi SS colonel, saboteur and guerrilla fighter during World War II; of bronchial cancer; in Madrid. Skorzeny led the September 1943 glider-borne rescue of Benito Mussolini from the mountain-top hotel where he had been imprisoned by the pro-Allied Badoglio government. The exploit earned him the Iron Cross and der Fuhrer's gratitude, which he repaid by helping to thwart the July 1944 plot against Hitler, rallying SS units and halting a wave of executions so that Gestapo torturers could extract from conspirators the extent of the plot. As German armies pressed...