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...great conviction in its dealings with the outside world. Nonetheless, the disclosure last month that Business School professors have been running a training program for Aramco officials demonstrates the lack of any moral responsibility on the part of some faculty members whose world takes them far beyond the academic realm...
...unfair to his supporters in New York who now had to fight for their own political lives. But he may also believe that Representative Morris K. Udall cannot win and that eventually the Democrats will turn to Senator Hubert H. Humphrey. A Humphrey-Bayh ticket is not beyond the realm of possibility for 1976, and at 47, Bayh's own presidential ambitions are still alive. Maybe in 1980 he will have enough money to make it to New York...
Under a huge oil painting of King George VI's coronation, nine peers of the realm gathered last week in a paneled committee room of the House of Lords. Ranged around a horseshoe table, the lords listened intently as, one by one, bewigged barristers rose to argue the fine points of one of the oddest cases in British legal history-the sort of legal conundrum that could exist only in a country that still has titles and a nobility. The two opposing claimants in the case sat stone-faced in the chamber, refusing to meet each other: Geoffrey Denis...
...without the other. But Bell, particularly, locates the nation's present malaise--lack of faith in government, a sense of social purposelessness and even economic crisis--in a contradiction between the self-suppression of the individual in efficient work and the "hedonism" which characterizes leisure time and the consumption realm...
...party glimpse of John Jacob Astor III, "slow but agreeable, and much too red in the face." Wherever he goes, Schuyler is publicly deferential, as befits an aging favor seeker. Privately, this self-described "effete Parisian" fills his journal with barbed, often uproarious observations on this "vigorous, ugly, turbulent realm...