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...veterans returned in the elation of their sheer survival. But then, weirdly, they vanished into America's oblivion. This spring and summer some of them have been trying to rise out of that denial and make themselves visible. Some have staged protests
...increased immediately after Americans festooned the nation from coast to coast with yellow ribbons. The 52 hostages, after 444 days of captivity, got lifetime passes to baseball games; thousands of Viet Nam vets, who spent years in a form of internal exile, had been rewarded with either contempt or oblivion...
...appointed local prefects in France's 96 departments by elected regional councils. For that task, Mitterrand will need the elite's cooperation, and he will probably get it. Says one E.N.A. official, explaining how graduates feel about working in an area of government that is slated for oblivion: "Their feeling is that there is always something to be learned there, and that the experience will be useful later in getting another post in regional administration." None of them doubt that there will always be jobs. -By George Russell...
Secretary of State Alexander Haig, says Baldrige, "grasps the jar firmly with both hands, peers with great intensity into its depths and searches until he finds two red jelly beans. These he pops into his mouth - and there is an audible crunch as he masticates them into oblivion." Concludes Baldrige: "The man just doesn't like the color...
...four a year. The numbers do tell a tale of reduced opportunity for students: but, in truth, the Loeb has swallowed up student productions in the past far more often than student talent has managed to fill its confines. A huge theater, it tends to dwarf mediocrity into oblivion...