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Transfer students deserve a little extra effort on the part of Harvard officialdom. They make the extra effort to come to Cambridge, they arrive with an inherent adjustment handicap, and all information seems to indicate that they do extremely well regardless. Giving them the chance to "do well" socially, as well as academically, is simply the logical fulfillment of accepting transfer students in the first place...
Then, on Friday, Gromyko heads for the main event of the week: his discussion with Reagan at the White House. The President prepared for his first encounter with high-level Soviet officialdom by reviewing thoroughly the numerous proposals made by the U.S. over the past ten months to get arms negotiations back on track, as well as memos from Shultz and former Secretary of State Alexander Haig on their previous conversations with Gromyko. As has been the case throughout his Administration, Reagan received conflicting advice from two ideologically opposed schools of influence around...
...churchmen haven't merged and blurred, including the evangelical ministers of the abolitionist movement who broke the back of slavery and on up through the civil rights movement. The wall is an imaginary wall intended to keep government off the back of the church, to prevent the officialdom of the church from coercing their followers. But it was never intended to keep churchmen from voicing an opinion or asserting moral values...
...switches place cards if he is positioned below the salt, and bitchy Partygoer Popsie Tribble typically advises, "Remember, you're sitting next to a job, not a person." Gotlieb's columns, in the form of letters to a fictional friend back in Ottawa, cast wry glances at officialdom and toss bemused barbs at her own role as a Washington "Wife Of." Diapers and car pools are not her problem, but "if you don't know the results of the last two primaries and you're having people for dinner, you might as well just go upstairs...
...Columnist M. Stanton Evans: "He has undermined the Reagan agenda." Even a sympathetic co-worker admits that "Dick would feel comfortable working in a Democratic Administration." Friends label him a Government junkie, an operator who hopes to spend most of his life working at the top levels of Washington officialdom...