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...years, Dean concentrated on civil rights legislation and on criminal law reforms. In 1967 he became associate director of a now defunct panel (the National Commission on Reform of Federal Criminal Laws), which was set up to advise Congress and the President. There he struck one colleague as courteous, pleasant to work with but somewhat facile. Recalled the colleague: "He gave the appearance of having more poise and assurance than he really possessed...
NEWS OF U.S. bombing in Cambodia drones on. U.S. support for political repression in Vietnam continues. More bizarre details of Nixon's would-be secret police unfold in Washington. And yet, amidst summer breezes, pleasant reunions, and a Triple Crown victory, the school year draws to a close with an unaccustomed quiet that news magazines and conservative Faculty thrive on. The burdens the world bore this year were no less painful, no less unwieldy than the threats to self-determination and human equality to which past years have made us accustomed. But local burdens seem heavier, because after years...
...Presidents parted, Pompidou told newsmen: "I allowed myself a plaisanterie. I said [to Nixon] that this meeting had been more like conception than delivery. Fortunately, conception is usually more pleasant than delivery...
...Tory sportswriter? David Eisenhower, stepping up to bat with his first weekly column for the Philadelphia Bulletin, sounded a bit like one. "The rhetoric of change tingles the modern American," he noted, but baseball should look to its traditions. "Fans want a pleasant afternoon in a pleasant spot in the city, time to reminisce and," added David awkwardly but enthusiastically, "a rooting part in exhorting their players on to the legendary heights that came before." Hired by the Bulletin at an undisclosed salary, David, 25, will track the Phillies on tour and report other sports as well. This will give...
Former students of Mao described her yesterday as the "most concerned, the most pleasant and the most skilled teacher" they had ever...