Word: seniors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Funny you should ask that. Why, just last spring, a well-known senior tutor on campus notified one of his advisees that he didn't have enough credits to graduate. The unsuspecting undergraduate, or graduate, or whatever, was in Big Lake, Alaska at the time. He immediately wrote back, as did his mother, explaining that in fact, he was eligible for the great sheepskin. Of course, another look at his files prompted a return telegram, letter of explanation and profuse apology...
...arsenal to make Congress do his bidding. A tougher, more aggressive President was clearly emerging; his subordinates were threatening rebellious members of Congress with a loss of patronage and a withdrawal of crucial assistance in their re-election campaigns. "There is a misreading up on Capitol Hill," said a senior White House aide, justifying the presidential shift. "A lot of people in Congress don't think Carter is a strong President. A veto like this is traumatic, but it will help us in the long...
From the Israelis' point of view, the problem stemmed less from duplicity than from the confusion of recent events. In late June, when it had appeared that the Middle East peace negotiations were seriously and perhaps permanently stalled, Begin and his senior colleagues had indeed approved a secret plan to build the villages. Agriculture Minister Ariel Sharon, a strong advocate of settlements, quietly went about the task of asking the various kibbutzim movements for volunteers. Soon the opposition Labor Party learned of the plan, and so did the press...
...Bavarian booklet originally was intended only for junior bureaucrats who had been on the job for a year or less. (The reason for bypassing more senior bureaucrats, explained a finance ministry official tactfully, is that they "have gained the necessary experience, or if they haven't, they might feel miffed.") But requests for copies of Behörde und Bürger have come in from other governments across West Germany. A first printing of 20,000 brochures sold out; another 10,000 or so are scheduled to be run off this month...
That settled, the Cardinals will come forward one by one to pay homage to the new Pope. Messages will be dispatched to the octogenarian Cardinals outside the conclave. Then, with the crowds waiting in St. Peter's Square, the senior Cardinal Deacon will step out on the central balcony of St. Peter's and declare, "Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum. Habemus Papam!" (I announce to you a great joy. We have a Pope!) The new Pontiff, the Cardinal will continue, is "the Most Eminent and Most Reverend Lord Cardinal --, who has taken the name --." At that moment the world...