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Rosovsky has already started to tackle certain key questions regarding the focus of their reports. His decision to develop broad recommendations instead of the originally expected nuts-and-bolts suggestions has brought the task forces' reports into the same arena that submerged the Yale and Princeton reports. Most of the task force chairmen said last week that the majority of their recommendations will fall in the nut-and-bolts category - small, mostly administrative recommendations - that may not have to come before the Faculty. But James Q. Wilson, Shattuck Professor of Government and the chairman of the core curriculum task force...
...nine men guard the gate, while the rest of the palace is watched over by a dozen or so city policemen. Files are kept on potential assassins and all threats are investigated, but, says one senior ministry official with a shrug, "The danger here, like everywhere, is the nut-and that we can't protect against...
...just before his trip to Montreal for the American Judicature Society meeting, recalled Columnist Jack Anderson, when an assistant FBI director called to warn of a possible assassination plot by Arab terrorists. "If the FBI calls you, you've got to pay more attention than if some nut just wrote you a letter," said Anderson. Accordingly, Montreal police were notified, and they arranged for a secret hotel room and plainclothes guard. His protection thus assured, Anderson ventured out to make his speech-which included his standard quick jab at the FBI for keeping dossiers on prominent Americans...
...examine me except for about two minutes with a stethoscope"), he continued to fight for a flight even after he quit the Air Force in 1963 and took over as NASA's director of flight-crew operations, winch made inm boss of all the astronauts. A physical-fitness nut who runs-not jogs-a brisk two miles a day, Slayton finally found a cardiologist who was willing to certify inm for space-and a coveted seat on the joint flight. Says the graying space rookie: "For some people life begins at 40; for me it's going...
Blazing Carrots, 4, 5:30, 7, 8:30, 10 p.m. The Ruling Class. Peter O'Toole is a saintly-string of blonde hair and blue eyes here, playing a young aristocrat who is a psychotic, schizophrenic, paranolac, psychopathic nut, who takes his relaxation by hanging himself up on a crucifix in the parior, and who is uncomfortable in the role of noble and has no respect for his wealth or position. We're supposed to like him--he's the truly sane one, right? A worthless creep, I think--the idea is admirable, and there are a couple of good...