Word: odd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This is precisely what has happened. I have been "granted" those rights which were denied me on the first round, but it has been mere window-dressing. Not one of the forty-odd persons I nominated under the new procedure received enough votes to be asked to serve. (The GSD even arbitrarily refused to allow several of my nominations, under the specious reasoning that they did not hold the rank of assistant, associate or full professor; thus I was not allowed to nominate such longterm and distinguished members of the Harvard Faculty as Monroe Engel, Barrington Moore, Gary Marx...
...REBIRTH OF MILITARISM: "We don't even have conscription. There are still people in Japan who say we shouldn't have any self-defense forces at all. It is odd that a country like this should be accused of militarism by countries that are nuclear powers. The American nuclear umbrella is a guarantee that Japan will not become a nuclear power...
...role as the Governor of California dramatic enough, or does Former Actor Ronald Reagan hanker to make yet another movie? "Oh, the thought has entered the mind, but I know I can't do it," says the 61-year-old veteran of 50-odd films. But he adds: "I would have done anything in the world to play the title role in Patton," for which George C. Scott won a 1970 Academy Award. Another legendary general also appeals to the Governor: Douglas MacArthur. "When I think of the story that could be done on the same basis-coming...
Shortly after making off with Nogrette, the kidnapers telephoned the far-leftist paper La Cause du Peuple, edited by French Author Jean-Paul Sartre, and identified themselves as members of the NouveUe Resistance Populaire, one of a dozen-odd clandestine "Maoist" groups operating in Paris. They declared that Nogrette had been taken as reprisal for the death at the Renault plant late last month of Maoist Demonstrator René-Pierre Overney, 23. Overney, fired by Renault for political agitation, was shot by the plant's chief of security, Jean-Antoine Tramoni. 25. when he and other Maoists charged...
Still, Janet would probably shuck it all for marriage and family. Indeed, it seems odd to her friends that Janet, who will be 29 next month and has been engaged several times, has not been married by now. Looking remarkably like Dinah Shore, as a high school senior she was elected Most Likely to Settle Down and Start a Family. "I guess that changed in college," she says. "Suddenly other challenges popped up." Now she has done so well that her career seems to hurt her chances for marriage. She points out that a number of men look...