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...tracked his subject in such settings as an American Booksellers Association convention in Atlanta, where he joined Irving for a session of jogging and exercise in a hotel health club. Visiting the set of the film version of Garp in Millbrook, N.Y., he watched Irving coach Actor Robin Williams on the finer points of wrestling-but prudently did not participate. "Whether the subject is Viennese cuisine, bodybuilding or Russian novelists, Irving is equally at ease and in control," says Sheppard. "He's a man of great energy, humor and discipline-all held together by a Doric grace." On arriving...
...heightening of tensions throughout the Middle East. The Israeli strike immensely complicated, and may have destroyed, any hope that Philip Habib, Reagan's special Middle East envoy, could find a solution to the crisis over Syria's antiaircraft missiles in Lebanon. Last week Habib continued his round-robin shuttle, conferring first with Saudi officials in Riyadh, then with Syrian President Hafez Assad in Damascus, next with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin in Jerusalem and at week's end with the Saudis again. As usual, Habib was tight-lipped about his negotiations, but Begin announced that Israel...
...formally invited (a Third World head of state, according to one source) and another was approached. Neither idea worked out--a circumstance which is not at all unusual, as several plausible speakers are often sounded out before one accepts. "I don't really see what the big deal is," Robin Schmidt, vice president for government and community affairs, said last week. "The process was pretty much the same this year as every year... it just got perturbated by the possibility that the president of the United States would come...
...assigned Robin Schmidt to handle the invitation to Reagan. To some, it seemed as if he were waiting to receive assurance from the White House of a positive reply before sending off a formal invitation, but Schmidt said last week that that was not the case. A week after the Kennedy School's abortive efforts had been quashed, the whole matter burst into the open. Under the headline, "Harvard to its Kennedy School: Please, no Reagan at graduation," The Boston Globe reported that Harvard had "discouraged" an invitation to the president. The story was picked up nationwide, and officials feared...
...study which includes estimates of direct spending as well as a "multiplier" figure tracing the reinvestment of the dollars, "provides solid documentation of the importance of Harvard and other colleges and universities to the economic." Robin Sehmidt, assistant vice president for government and community affairs, said yesterday...