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Republican Party pros scoffed when Big John Connally, 62, announced that he was running for President. "A slick Lyndon Johnson," sneered one, "A wheeler-dealer in a sharkskin suit," gibed another. Now, only two months later, the jeering has stopped. Concedes Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt, campaign chairman for Front Runner Ronald Reagan: "Connally is coming on like gangbusters...
Last Friday evening, I was present at the performances of two shows, the juxtaposition of which offered a considerable insight into the pros and cons of Harvard theater. Both shows had full houses, both audiences reacted with a display of much approval--yet it was clear that one was a phenomenal theatrical success, the other a dismal failure. The two shows in question were Ellington at Eight on the Loeb mainstage, and Out of the Reach of Children at Kirkland House: there were many flaws of an obvious kind in both shows--the rare ability of the Ellington singers...
...pending Corporation approval, the College Fund's annual drive will be suspended and its network of alumni put to work for the capital drive. "A lot of pros and our colleagues in the Ivy League think we're crazy, but we feel this will simplify the drive for our alumni--there won't be any 'double-ask' and we won't have two parallel organizations," Clifton comments...
...advised by the pros that this [the resodding] was a good thing to do," Dean Fox, who authorized the resodding last fall, said yesterday. Fox estimated the cost of the project at between...
Whatever the pros and cons of the Administration's Iran policy, the crisis in the Persian Gulf has contributed to the impression of an Administration that reacts rather than initiates, and too often reacts in surprise and confusion. This seems to have been particularly true in its changing policy toward Peking. The timing and tone of the normalization announcement were managed by China, not by the U.S. The Chinese were impatient to get on with normalization. They also liked the idea of consummating their deal with the Americans before a signing of SALT II at a Carter-Brezhnev summit...