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...than the polls now indicate. Already the Kennedy challenge has begun to redefine the presidential election. Already it has brought out new mettle in Jimmy Carter, given focus and direction to his campaigning. Determined not to allow Kennedy to dominate him or the news, Carter has geared nearly every recent move he has made to the primary battles (see following story). Some Democrats fear that the struggle between the two will irreparably damage the party's chances of holding on to the White House. To Democratic National Chairman White, the Carter-Kennedy fight is much like two railroad locomotives hurtling...
Always impatient with parliamentary processes, Park appeared to regard them at best as a necessary nuisance. He provoked the recent troubles with a highhanded abuse of the virtually absolute powers he held under the 1972 constitution. He had conducted a repressive vendetta against Kim Young Sam, head of the opposition New Democratic Party. Kim incurred Park's wrath by defying a 1975 decree against criticizing the government. The opposition leader publicly called Park's regime "basically dictatorial" and urged the U.S. to "pressure" Park into granting long-denied human rights. Park ordered his tame majority...
...recent years it has become almost an oral tradition for clerks to poke fun at Burger as a vain and pompous man who likes French wine, as well as all things English, particularly English barristers, whom he considers to be more "civilized" than American lawyers. On occasion, he has been preceded by a messenger who gravely announced to startled clerks, "Gentlemen, the Chief Justice of the United States." Paranoid about press leaks, he opposed Rehnquist's suggestion for a weekly tea with clerks because he thought it a security risk. The court's press officer, Barrett McGurn, regularly...
...Cambridge to view first-hand the effects of co-residency. With her husband Lionel she moved into Briggs Hall in the spring of 1971. Three essays on the visit appear in the collection, We Must March My Darlings, published in 1977. Mrs. Trilling discussed her visit in a recent interview...
...meteor or Hurricane David. It is the Yale football team. And it is threatening to do something that has not been done in recent memory--keep the Ivy season from going down to the last week before the championship is determined...