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...toward the urban sinkhole of the South Bronx. With police helicopters hovering overhead, the presidential motorcade drove by block after block of devastated buildings, many of them burned to charred shells by arsonists. The President got out of his car twice to walk through the rubble with HUD Secretary Patricia Harris and New York's lame-duck mayor, Abraham Beame. "Let me walk about a block," he told his Secret Service agents at one point, and then he proceeded, in good campaign style, to shake hands with slumdwellers who crowded doorsteps and street corners. "How are you doing, Jimmy...
...entire cast works with will and skill, and Patricia Elliott is particularly winning as a perky lady's maid with a tongue of salt and a spine of spunk. Ste phen Porter directs with stylish assurance, and equal praise accrues to Richard Wil bur, the translator-poet. His springy rhyming couplets carry scarcely a trace of melodic monotony and he turns Moliere's French into buoyantly idiomatic English...
...Patricia J. Eberle, instructor in English Literature, said yesterday that she has felt no pressure from the University to give out inflated grades. She added that her experience at the University of Texas, where she had previously been employed, had been different. "A failed student represented a failure on the part of the instructor," she said...
...engaged in a lively debate with the President last week. HEW Secretary Joseph Califano argued that un less the criticism of quotas was "softened," hundreds of affirmative-action programs under negotiation by his department would be jeopardized. The two blacks in the Cabinet were equally adamant. HUD Secretary Patricia Harris maintained that housing and job discrimination would be encouraged, and United Nations Ambassador Andrew Young warned that the Administration's position on Bakke would never be forgotten by blacks. Carter reportedly maintained that he was inclined to give the edge to affirmative action wherever possible, but felt that...
...Game, every first name sends forth "psychological vibrations" that affect our lives. Summarizing four studies that sampled public reaction to first names, Andersen, who writes for PEOPLE magazine, lists "894 Names and What They Really Mean." The results will displease people named Martha -which psychologically vibrates to mean "unexciting"-Patricia (plain), Mark (spoiled) and Basil (sinister...