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...Representative John Brademas (D., Ind.), LL.D., chairman of the House Subcommittee on Select Education. For sticking to your faith in education regardless of the political weather...
...while it looked as if all the investigations, all the headlines, all the public agonizing over U.S. intelligence abuses would come to nothing. The vexing question was whether the 15-month inquiry conducted by Frank Church's Senate Select Committee would lead to the creation of a truly effective congressional committee with oversight powers on the intelligence agencies. But for the efforts of a few Senators who dug in their heels-Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, Government Operations Committee Chairman Abraham Ribicoff and California's Alan Cranston among them -the answer might well have been an emphatic...
...Italian accent is heavy and rich. At Richard-Ginori, customers select chinaware priced from $20 to $700 per place setting. Fashion Designer Valentino Garavani, whose ready-to-wear cocktail dresses can cost $800, has turned his Fifth Avenue boutique into an identical triplet of his Rome and Milan extravaganzas-all mirrors, brass and thick beige carpet. Mario of Florence, who sells women's shoes at from $82 to $420 a pair, operates out of a grand salon that could have been lifted from a jet-age Florentine palazzo. Roberta di Camerino's place, which specializes in sportswear...
...Srouji. For more than a decade she had been acting as an FBI informer, receiving bureau leaks in return for information on black activists, student radicals, dissident groups and, possibly, her professional colleagues. Srouji thus became the first journalist to be identified as an FBI informant since the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence recently disclosed that the bureau has for years been using reporters and editors in various collaborative roles. And she became the first journalist to be fired for such activity when Tennessean Publisher John Seigenthaler summarily dismissed...
...piano to one called "Tuesdays are always yellow, aren't they?" for harp and it's-anyone's-guess-what-else. Although Harvard does not have the most illustrious name as far as graduate music schools go the composition professors are outstanding and their students are a highly select and qualified crew...