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Gelber is not big on stability. He took two years off after high school and hitchhiked across America. After sophomore year here the Dudley House resident took off another two years to live in Italy where "I mostly drank and read books you're not allowed to read at Harvard." In Italy "I spent everything I had ever saved and borrowed some...
...year after I wrote that piece, I got to read a virtual rewrite of that essay, now entitled "They Flee from Me," in a Lampoon parody of the What. To add insult to injury, a good friend of mind unwittingly complimented me for writing the Lampoon's parody, saying it was the best piece I had ever written. One freshman girl even took the parody so seriously she called me up to complain about...
Responding to a question from a 1962 graduate, Bok said that while he had not yet read Sullivan's statement, he did not think the outspoken opponent of apartheid should dictate the University's investment policies...
...indignantly wrote, "I did not become a newspaperman to hide outside a politician's house trying to find out whether he was in bed with somebody." When it comes to scandal, the New York Times is up above the world so high. Its readers must have been puzzled to read that Hart's reputation as a womanizer was well known to those who get their news elsewhere. But there is a touch of self-righteousness in papers that practice what might be called "second-strike" journalism, fastidiously not printing something until others have made it news, then eagerly joining...
What are PTL's prospects? Amazingly enough, attendance at Heritage USA is running 20% ahead of last year's levels. At week's end a banner at the entrance to the amusement park that had read MAY EMERGENCY had been altered to read MAY MIRACLE! The proclamation was the result of a surge of donations that enabled Falwell to raise the $7 million he said was needed by May 31. Now, however, another $20 million to $25 million within 90 days is being solicited by Falwell, who claims PTL requires that amount to consolidate its loans...