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...personal triumph for Edward Richard George Heath, whose working-class background clashes sharply with the traditions of the blue-blood-dominated Conservative Party. The son of a master carpenter, Heath is a rarity among Tory Prime Ministers: a man who is not a product of one of Britain's select public schools. Heath did, however, attend Oxford's Balliol College, on an organ scholarship. Some acquaintances claim that they can still detect a trace of cockney in his acquired upper-class accent. "His vowels betray him," says a fellow Tory, who recalls that some party members would mimic Heath...
...omission of Carty is the most ludicrous inconsistency in what has come to be known as "Bowie's booboo." To keep people "involved" in the All-Star game, Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn decided last winter to again let the fans make the selections instead of the players. To prevent ballot stuffing, Kuhn arranged to have the voting policed and tabulated by computer. Trouble was, to allow enough time for programming the computer, managers and player representatives had to select the nominees last spring, which is about as reliable as trying to predict the Dow-Jones averages eight months...
Thus, in addition to the debacle at the Bernsteins', Radical Chic brought on the party that Assemblyman Andrew Stein gave for a few striking Mexican-American grape workers on his father's estate in Southampton. The select "all stood there in their Pucci dresses, Gucci shoes. Capucci scarves. The wind had come up off the ocean and it was wrecking everybody's hair. People were standing there with their hands pressed against their heads as if the place had been struck by a brain-piercing ray from the Purple Dimension." And in Wolfe's view...
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...