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...Gongalves, 53, also a career officer who is regarded as the principal architect of the April revolution. Gongalves and the more conservative Spinola fought on almost all important issues, with Costa Gomes, then the No. 2 man in the ruling junta, acting as referee. Now Goncalves and Costa Gomes profess agreement on almost everything. "Where General Spinola saw anarchy, General Costa Gomes sees a healthy popular vigilance," says Gongalves. "These differences [between us] prevented a more harmonious functioning of the various processes of power. At this moment the situation is much clearer, and there is no doubt that favorable conditions...
Staff members profess to having found their first counseling calls "scary." But they say this feeling wore off soon, when they realized that the caller at the other end of the line was at least as timid as they. Bill S. Connelly, a staff member, said that people who come in to talk often spend the first ten minutes of their time there apologizing for having troubled the staffer...
...infinite variety, the new T shirts are printed to order by the thousands with a picture or slogan that reflects the wearer's whims and wheezes, concerns, complaints, sentiments (SHARING MAKES YOU SMILE INSIDE), politics, and anything else he or she may want to proclaim, profess or promote. Thanks to novel techniques, notably a fast-heat pressure press that can transfer to a T shirt any picture, design or message in full color, major department stores such as Manhattan's Macy's and Chicago's Carson Pirie Scott and hundreds of small T shops across...
...subject of death rivals religion as an object of student laughter--always in response to the lecturer's deliberate nuances, of course. Very few instructors, if any, take any pains to dispel the dangerous myth, very widespread in radical circles and among students in general, that because those who profess venerable systems do so hypocritically, the values themselves must be held suspect. Thus not only is the classroom devoid of partisan argument on behalf of particular value systems; but even less than at Berkeley or Central Washington or the other state colleges and universities I've been attached to does...
...antithesis of Arkansas' self-image. The state's symbol is a raging razorback, and J. William Fulbright is an owl in gabardine. Though they did not profess to understand him very well or to endorse many of his views, the voters of Arkansas had for 30 years been sending Bill Fulbright to Washington. Like fond, if slightly baffled parents, they took pride in the national and global attention he won as the Senate's foremost authority on foreign affairs...