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...committee to select his successor has been set up, but Harvard has not yet contacted anyone about the post and will probably not announce the now coach until the early part...
Though he committed numerous diplomatic and social faux pas during his early days as U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, Walter H. Annenberg has lately displayed greater sensitivity to British traditions of pomp and formality. Perhaps that is why a select group of Londoners recently received his invitation to an embassy party in honor of "Mr. Francis Sinatra." At the gathering, Francis himself was informal as ever. Responding to a toast, he held his glass high, looked warmly at the guests and said: "Bless your distinguished little hearts...
Lesser inefficiencies have proved no less annoying. Shoppers in Russian stores must typically move through three lines to complete a single purchase: one to select the item, another to pay for it, a third to pick it up. Red tape snarls every transaction. The Moscow weekly Economic Gazette recently published a study of the paperwork necessary to order a pair of pants from a Soviet tailor shop. No fewer than four magazine-size blanks must be filled out, it said, adding that Soviet trousers "eat" enough paper each year to print a daily newspaper with a circulation...
...expected to favor Douglas. Consequently Ford, seeking a more receptive forum, proposed a step that would be considered by the House Rules Committee under conservative Southern Democrat William Colmer. Last week Ford got 52 Republicans and 53 Democrats to sign a resolution calling for the creation of a select committee to conduct a preliminary investigation of Douglas...
...born on April 22. They had excellent reason to be reverent and grateful, for their formidable aggregate of power still derives from Lenin's genius and from his achievements as the true architect of Communism. Thus they will invoke his name to legitimize their rule, and adroitly select from his speeches and writings to justify the existing social order. They will cite Lenin to sanctify Russia's quarrel with China, its invasion of Czechoslovakia and its imperious nuclear stance. Outside Russia, wherever there are Communists, men will also congregate in obeisance to the memory...