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During the era of political turmoil on campus a decade ago, stopping out was often a gesture of defiance. Now it is just as likely to indicate ambition. Oliver Miller, 24, a Yale senior who will be leaving for Oxford this fall as a Rhodes scholar, took off for two years in 1975 and wound up in Atlanta, where he became one of two aides on the issues staff of the fledgling Jimmy Carter presidential campaign. "It was an incredible education," he recalls, "the kind I don't think you could ever get from a textbook." Paul Albritton...
...consultant: "The most important thing in holding down inflation is to get business and labor's cooperation on prices and wages." Everybody agrees that winning labor support is remote, especially after George Meany last week thumbed his nose at Carter's importuning for restraint. Arthur Okun, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, notes that the rate of wage increases has jumped more than a full point in a year, to 8.3%. He contends that the Administration must set an example-such as holding firm on wage increases for federal employees-that will stiffen the spines of business...
...Dublin. His skill with languages brought him a two-year fellowship in Paris and the promise of a teaching post at Trinity when he finished. In Paris, Beckett joined the circle of acolytes surrounding James Joyce; the young Irishman's first published work was an essay championing his senior countryman. Joyce's daughter Lucia, who was drifting into the schizophrenia that would eventually disable her, fixated on Beckett as a soul mate. She knew...
Samuel Beckett performed some brave work with the French Resistance during World War II: He married a woman seven years his senior in 1961 after having lived with her for amost a quarter-century...
...laxmen also selected senior attackman Steve Martin, the Ivy League scoring champion, as the winner of the Class of '59 Most Valuable Player award. "Marty" contributed 29 goals and 46 assists this season to raise his career point total to 167, second on the all-time Harvard list...