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...unpainted bookcase. Situated in a tumble-down neighborhood four blocks from the Michigan state capitol, Governor George Romney's new head quarters - formally dubbed the "research center" - clearly had nothing to do with state business. The working hypothesis, of course, was that the Republican presidential nomination was within Rom ney's reach. However logical that as- sumption might seem, it was being undermined with empirical assiduity almost half a continent away in New Orleans...
...Rom is a teacher; Beth is a nurse. Both work in the interior sealed off from the coast by the dense jungle of the Crocker Mountains. Their post, Tambuman, is a town of 1,000 people. Some 10,000 people farm the surrounding countryside, where the careful geometry of the wet rice paddy is dominant...
That their work is both difficult and serious have taught Rom and Both not to take themselves seriously. "You discover what you need anywhere is to be content," Beth said. "It takes time, but you learn to communicate. When you learn to laugh at the same things as the people here ... then you are home...
Tentative plans call for expansion of Dudley's present facilities to permit their and a Radcliffe study room which will use by both Cliffies and Harvard Extension Program students. A permanent dining rom serving three meals a day probably replace the one in the basement of Memorial Church will be added...
...high barricades of barbed wire. Machine guns were mounted on Ferret armored cars, and the "Van Doos" (a corruption of Royal Vingt-Deuxième Régiment) organized themselves into platoons and companies as more and more troop-laden planes dropped out of the Mediterranean sky. Mess Sergeant Roméo Saulnier, bent over the first three stoves set up, said, "I've got orders to cook supper for 400 men tonight, lunch for 600 tomorrow, and for 800 next...