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...cause, however, was taken up by several prominent Americans, among them Secretary of State George Shultz; five months ago Feltsman and his family were abruptly given permission to leave. In short order, the State University of New York College at New Paltz handed Feltsman a teaching post at $80,000 a year, the powerful Columbia Artists agency lined up more than 50 engagements, and there was a concert at the White House. Almost as quickly as he had fallen into disfavor, Feltsman, 35, soared to international celebrity...
...emptying their .45 pistols at targets. They were up at 5:30 a.m., often with pounding heads. "We were bachelors, and we did a lot of drinking," says Polk, "but with all the riding, we were healthy." Another old Riley hand, Major General Lawrence ("Bud") Schlanser, arrived at the post as a second lieutenant and married Jill Rodney, daughter of Colonel Dorcey Read Rodney, the commandant, "a little bandy-legged guy, tough as an old boot." Socializing for young married officers and their wives was both formal and innocent -- tuxedos or dress blues for the men, 15 cents movies...
...vacuum has been filled by Attorney General Edwin Meese, whose advice has nearly always led to disaster. Even David Broder, the Washington Post's normally temperate columnist, last week joined the growing cry for Meese's firing. The likelihood that Reagan will heed that recommendation is virtually nil; Meese is the last of his California cronies left in the Administration. Still, the two Bakers, Secretary of State George Shultz and Defense Secretary- designate Frank Carlucci are all people of sound judgment to whom the President should listen...
...center is Washington. That's where the difficulties are coming from." In the U.S., a group of more than 150 business leaders, lawyers, educators and former Cabinet members, calling themselves the Bipartisan Budget Appeal, took out a two-page advertisement in the New York Times and the Washington Post to demand spending cuts of at least $30 billion to $40 billion in fiscal 1988. Said the group, which included a range of prominent liberals (Edmund Muskie) as well as conservatives (William Simon): "We recognize that the bold political action now needed is impossible unless the people allow it -- indeed, unless...
Perhaps it's not too late. Perhaps, with your help, we really can make a difference. If you would like to make my expiration a happy one, please rush via U.S. Post any donation of smokable or ingestible material you feel you can spare to Rutger Fury, c/o The Harvard Crimson, Deputy Editorial Chairman, 14 Plympton St., Cambridge, Massachusetts...