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AAAAS also charged the Standing Committee with violating the terms of the Rosovsky Report, under which it was empowered only to select a chairman for the new department...
...Center tries to select a type of Fellows who apart from some obvious qualifications, are still flexible enough to be responsive to new ideas. I would see it as a display of defeatism, if the liberal and radical students did not believe that at least some of their ideas found an echo with certain Fellows...
...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...