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...March 22] is a well-written, well-informed piece of news on current Australian politics. But your heading, "Fall of the Larrikin," is very unfair to John Grey Gorton. He may have some faults and would be quick to admit them, but a larrikin [hooligan], no. Rough-hewn and outspoken, yes. He is a tough, typical Aussie...
...curb ethnic slurs and stereotypes, and would be appalled at any use of it by the underworld. But the league, inadvertently or not, has benefited the Mafia-serving as a public relations smokescreen for mob activities. Colombo's leadership of the league has made him the most outspoken reputed Mafia leader in the history of organized crime as well as a straight-faced anti-defamation champion to many New Yorkers of Italian extraction...
...last of the oldtime scholar-presidents, though hardly a slouch at modern fund raising, Goheen is nearly a polar opposite of Yale's outspoken, well-publicized Kingman Brewster Jr. Nonetheless, Goheen's 14 years' experience as head of a great university seems unlikely to end with quiet retirement to a classics library. At his age, say Goheen watchers, his public life may have just begun...
...American bathroom, ever a target for European wits and soreheads, has a host of enthusiasts as well; none is more outspoken than Critic Edmund Wilson, who once said: "I have had a good many more uplifting thoughts, creative and expansive visions ... in well-equipped American bathrooms than I have ever had in any cathedral." That sort of affection seems to run in the family. Mary McCarthy, who was wed to Wilson for eight years, has hailed the bathroom half-ironically as the "last fortress of the individual, the poor man's club, the working girl's temple...
Herbert C. Kelman, Cabot Professor of Social Ethics, and Everett I. Mendelsohn, professor of the History of Science- both outspoken opponents of the Vietnam war- sent the letter to all Faculty members on March 16, along with a request to join them in withholding payment of the telephone excise tax in protest against...