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...special joint committee, drawing members from both the House and Senate, that would have the power-still not spelled out -to oversee the operations of the CIA. Such a step was recommended by both the Rockefeller Commission, which looked into the domestic transgressions of the CIA, and a blue-ribbon commission on foreign policy that was created by President Richard Nixon and headed by Robert D. Murphy, a former Under Secretary of State...
HARVARD'S AND Radcliffe's move to so-called equal access admissions next year will only make a gradual progress toward equalizing the number of men and women in college. For all the fanfare by a year-long study of the issue by a blue ribbon committee, some serious questions still must be answered about Harvard and Radcliffe's version of equal access...
...news. But as for common identification with the school in terms of everyday life, football games seem to be the only time Philly alumni will cheer together on the same side. Philadelphia alumni rarely coalesce on the same issue, Hecksher says. "Even when Clark [Joseph S. Clark '23, blue-ribbon mayor in the city during the '50's and later a Pennsylvania senator] was running for mayor there were only stray followers." Louis G. Hill '46 of Chestnut Hill, a mayoral candidate whom Mayor Frank Rizzo overwhelmed in a recent primary, also failed to engender much Harvard-related support, Hecksher...
...normal life. But more likely they saw it as a way of proving the same thing to themselves, and vindicating themselves from guilt over what was an avoidable accident. But we at the newspaper had initiated the story: we weren't content to list him among the other blue ribbon winners at the Jefferson County Fair, which would have been the normal treatment of the boy. All I could say to myself and to my editor was, why highlight the tragedy again? His rejoinder: Just think, he might have become a burden on society. At the time, the experience...
...vision and perceptions. We learn not to see certain contradictions. For instance, we learn not to see, not to notice the stilted "legs" and mechanical arm of Robin Starling standing next to his prize-winning cow with its perfect loins. We learn to see only the blue ribbon on the animal--the badge of success--and the smile on the boy's face--the sign of acquiescence...