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...this fall, but no one seemed to care, least of all the princess. "When Anne says she is intellectually lazy," said her former housemistress at Benenden, "I can't refute it." So far the young princess has been content to ride, sail, party, ski and tend to the ribbon-cutting chores that are the appointed lot of royalty. Though Prince Philip reportedly told a friend he would like to see his daughter "gain some sort of solid achievement," he quickly added: "It is difficult to know in what...
...chiefs are under attack on a third front as well. Reduction of U.S. military commitments abroad is bound to alter their policymaking role and lessen their importance. Nor is a study, now being conducted by a blue-ribbon panel appointed by Defense Secretary Melvin Laird, likely to increase their significance. Surveying the operations of the entire Department of Defense, the panelists are concerned about whether the chiefs can meet almost daily on policy matters and still run their services. The panel may recommend that the chiefs be relieved of one of their jobs...
...Marauess of Bath to open his $2,500,000 "Wild Animal Kingdom" at Woburn Abbey. Only the animals refused to cooperate. As Bath drove around the preserve in his Bentley, a lion named Reggie leaped onto the hood. Three baby elephants had charged him as he cut the blue ribbon. When Bath held his ground, 450-lb. Tess trampled his foot. Lamely, his lordship predicted success for Bedford's menagerie...
Appropriate Criteria. In February, the regents ordered a "blue-ribbon committee" of U.C.L.A. faculty members to investigate charges that Miss Davis was propagandizing her students and making fiery public speeches. Last month the panel reported its findings to the regents -and apparently gave them no grounds for dismissal. The philosophy department has endorsed her reappointment after the most extensive review of academic qualification "ever conducted in such a case...
...have proposed the establishment of a Committee on Corporate Responsibility to examine not only the GM's performance in the problem areas I have already described, but also the structural changes which may be needed to make GM responsible. What we have in mind is a blue-ribbon committee of outstanding citizens, perhaps like the Riot Commission or a British Royal Commission...