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...last volume of her essays which will be published. Many of the essays in the book have appeared separately before. Written at various times in the last 20 years of her life, they represent a wide variety of subjects, from a dissertation on the novels of Turgenev to a plea for the abolition of book reviewers...
...another part of this report, there is a plea for distribution courses that will stress "values and standards." To see how this idea has been borne out in action we need only to look at one of the General Education Courses now taught on the Freshman level--"Individual and Social Values in History, Drama, Fiction, and Philosophy," better known as Humanities...
Waxy little John Maragon, once a brassy man about Washington with a White House pass and the ear of Major General Harry Vaughan, found last week that he had no influence with a federal jury. Even his attorney's plea that Maragon was only "a peanut vendor among princes" was no help. The jury found that he had lied to a Senate subcommittee in last summer's investigation of Washington five-percenters, found him guilty on two counts of perjury...
...vast Harries home as parlormaid. Here, Pam promptly runs into the path of Mrs. Harries' pampered, drunken, lecherous nephew, Charles. Like her 18th Century predecessor, she needs most of the rest of the book to convince him that her pure ears are deaf to any plea short of wedding bells...
Colucci, who was arrested Tuesday in his basement barber shop at the corner of Holyoke and Mt. Auburn Streets, entered a plea of not guilty; but he submitted to the finding of guilty returned by the court yesterday...