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...last two years, the Undergraduate Council has allocated a $500 block grant to each house, according to council presidentelect Lamelle D. Rawlins '99. At the end of the year, houses submit receipts and can be reimbursed up to that amount...
...least a third of the homeless are mentally ill. Most have been released from state asylums during the past two decades as part of a well-intended campaign to free patients whose disorders can be controlled with drugs. "It was a good civil libertarian idea," says Dr. John Talbott, presidentelect of the American Psychiatric Association. "The trouble was that city and state governments failed to set up a safety net for those who don't cope well." On Los Angeles' Skid Row, says Social Worker Herb Lester, "I get a lot of people who say, 'They gave...
...choosing a successor to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Presidentelect Jimmy Carter could hardly have selected anyone with a more contrasting style. Cyrus Roberts Vance is a low-key, prudent team player who made his reputation as a skilled troubleshooter for Lyndon Johnson. He is so uncomfortable with personal publicity that photographs often show him wearing a slightly rueful half-smile...
Rogers' ability attracted Nixon when both men were new in Washington and Rogers, as counsel for the Senate Executive Expenditure Committee, was busy exposing Truman Administration "Five Percenters" who had accepted bribes on Government contracts. Years later, when Nixon became Presidentelect, he decided to offer his old friend the Secretary of State's job. In Miami, accepting the Republican nomination for President, Nixon had said: "After an era of confrontation, the time has come for an era of negotiation." When he introduced his new Cabinet to a national television audience one night in December 1968, Nixon recalled this...
Married. Julie Nixon, 20, Presidentelect Richard M. Nixon's younger daughter; and Dwight David Eisenhower II, 20, only grandson of former President Dwight Eisenhower; in a 15-minute ceremony performed at Manhattan's Marble Collegiate Church by the Rev. Dr. Norman Vincent Peale. Julie wanted the wedding to be quiet, private and as small as possible. Only 500 family and friends were at the church, while Ike and Mamie watched over closed-circuit TV from his suite at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. The only departure from the script came when Julie kissed...